The Road Less Written
Writers helping writers on the path to excellence
Author Judith Fein on Writing, Reading, and Being Yourself
If anyone personifies “The Road Less Written,” it’s travel-writer and author Judith Fein who “lives to leave.” You can find her articles in nearly 100 different publications, and she and her husband, photojournalist Paul Ross, share their travel adventures at...
Adapting your Book to Audiobook
Why would you just sell your book in ebook or print, when you could sell it as an audiobook? Maybe your answer is that you have no idea how to get your book into audiobook format. If that's the case, there are a couple of choices, but the one I like is ACX.com. I...
The Metamorphosis of a Blog
The RedwoodsSociety will soon be TheRoadLessWritten. Like the butterfly, we’re maturing and finding our wings. But the caterpillar is still crawling around in there. We’re staying with our original calling—promoting fellowship with other writers who, like us “attempt...
Job Interview – A Short Story
“You don’t have to,” said Marci, with an affect that made it impossible for Davis to know whether it was being uttered out of sincerity, or more as a disclamation to have to reciprocate such favors some day in the future. Either way, it mattered not. It was a small...
Is Amazon the New Blog Platform?
Are you blogging or are you writing a book? Why not both! This year marked another year at the San Francisco Writers Conference, and I had a great time. One topic that was raised in a conversation with some attendees was the idea of Amazon.com as a place to blog....
Bragging Rights and Tribes
The best way to irritate and alienate other authors is to brag about your accomplishments. For most of us, however, that’s not a problem. We deplore the self-promotion aspect of marketing our books. That’s one reason we should have tribes. We need writer cohorts, such...
Two-Minute Fiction: “Texture”
“Snuffleupagus always kinda freaked me out,” Atkins said, looking out the restaurant window to the street where a cop had just pulled over a guy in a gray Nissan. “Not him, per se. I think it was his entrance music. That sort of dragging, swaying, shambling music that...
Veterans and Creative Writing
When we think of post-military careers, "creative writing" isn't always the first thing to come to mind. But that's what writing is for our own Justin Sloan. He was recently interviewed for a One Bold Move podcast (link below) that focused on his transition out of the...
Six Great WordPress.org Plugins
. The writing life should be about sitting in front of your keyboard and creating. Even better if a roaring fire, quietly content children, and an adoring dog and spouse are thrown in. But, for most of us, it's not that simple. We blog. We take to the blogosphere, not...
Fun With Spam
Being relatively new to the whole blogging thing, I'm still trying to navigate my way around the WordPress landscape. Despite the patient helpfulness of my friend and fellow Redwoods colleague, Laura Wilkinson Hedgecock, I still can't figure out the difference between...
Author Interview: Will Wight and the Travelers Gate Trilogy
As a Christmas present to all of you, I would like to share my interview with Will Wight, the author of the Travelers Gate trilogy. It makes sense for me to share this with you all today, because Will is offering a Christmas discount on the second book in his...
A Writer’s Questions about Heaven, Yet to be Answered
Notwithstanding the potential of turning this into one massive passion-fueled, rolling tumbleweed of theological debate and discussion, I think the question is fair and quite simple: When you die and (assuming) you go to heaven, what will you look like? I'm not...
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