by Pam | Jul 28, 2020 | Writing Tips
This podcast interview between Crystal Hunt of Strategic Authorpreneur and author Pam Withers was released July 28, 2020. The version below corrects typos in the version posted at https://strategicauthorpreneur.com/podcast/022-writing-collaboratively-with-pam-withers/...
by Pam | Sep 29, 2019 | Blog, Writing Tips
I’m often asked my favorite books on writing craft (fiction), so I’m going to list them here. They’ve been of great help to me, and I urge writers of any level to embrace them. There are a whole lot of bad books on writing craft out there, so enjoy...
by Pam | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog, Writing Tips
Imagine being able to instantly increase your writing ability tenfold! All you need is ten toy soldiers on your desk. Okay, that’s a silly metaphor, but imagine if you had ten toy soldiers, each labelled with one of the following writing tips. Now go through your...
by Pam | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog, Writing Tips
When your writing gets stuck, it’s kind of like being a turtle upended, or like your wood-cutting axe hitting a knot in the wood. Frustrating. But this latest round of being stuck on my in-progress young-adult adventure novel, I wasn’t really frustrated....
by Pam | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Writing Tips
Here’s a humorous passage I just came across in an novel that I really enjoyed: From The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (copyright 2017, Bond Street Books): “Do you enjoy being a writer, Mrs. Avery?” asked Julian. “No, of course not,” she said. “It’s a...
by Pam | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Writing Tips
We’ve come a long way since German novelist Karl May (1842-1912) wrote a series of books romanticizing American Indians, without ever having met one or even having visited North America. His books (the Westerns feature Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, and Adolph Hitler...
