
You want to be a writer. So you write and write and write. But still no one seems to take you seriously. You’re following the submission guidelines, you’ve addressed the...

Now here's a hot button topic for you. Writing is hard enough. Once a manuscript gets accepted, then a new kind of torture starts. They call it The Editing Process....

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is a "contest" that starts annually on November 1st and goes through November 30th. The goal of the contest is write a 50,000 word novel...

Viable Paradise week-long writers workshop with my increased productivity and my ability to turn in stories that need little-to-no editing. But there’s a bit more to the story than that....

Not counting my Shadowrun work, I’ve had a total of six stories accepted for publication with only three of them returned to me with editor requested revisions. In fact, they...

Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.