Laura Drake

Learning how you write a book is like finding your way in a pitch black room full of furniture. You can learn by barking your shins, but there are less painful ways. 

Does it make you crazy trying to locate details in your WIP? In which chapter did the dog first show up? Or the first kiss? Or harder yet, the smaller details—what kind of shoes did the old man wear the second time the heroine met him? How old was the character when she met her husband? What year was that? How many words are left to stay within genre limits?

I know I do.

Jen Sinclair

Back in the days of dial-up Internet, and long before the rise of social media, there was blogging. For writers especially, blogging gave us an outlet, an opportunity to sharpen our skills, to tell stories, and to hone our voices. We wrote about whatever meant something to us. And we blogged to connect with readers and each other long before the world became overconnected.

Though many of us have abandoned blogging in favor of social media, the practice still has value. It’s with this in mind that WFWA is launching Write Away, a blog that takes you behind the screens, laptops, tablets, and pages of the amazing community of WFWA members. We’re hoping to become a reliable source of insight for every step of the writing and publishing journey, from the perspective of those going through it in real time.

Whether you’re a WFWA member or a hopeful writer scrolling through, all are welcome to subscribe and follow. We want nothing more than to provide the kind of support that helps fill your creative tank so that you, too, can write away.