The Writers Nexus - Writings & Musings On Art and Life

November 3, 2020

High School English Lessons Still Apply When Writing A Story – Introduction, Body & Conclusion

We were all taught in English class of the importance of having an introduction, a body and a conclusion in our essays. This…

October 29, 2020

I love…. absolutely LOVE, old fairytales. When we were little, our mother would read bedtime stories to us from the old book of fairytales…

October 27, 2020

I’ve read Paulo Cohelo’s best selling book, The Alchemist, more times than I can count. It’s a story about a boy who finds a…

October 25, 2020

Margaret Atwood is the author of a novel she wrote and successfully sold in the 1980s entitled… The Handmaid’s Tale. Yes, she’s the original…

October 29, 2019

Whenever you want to get unstuck and get some writers block help, try asking this; Now what happens? That’s the first question. Now if nothing…

May 9, 2019

I’ve discovered a great Youtube channel called Film Courage. They specialize in helping writers with scripts for movies and TV. There are LOTS of…

May 26, 2018

Below are a few videos from bestselling author Nicholas Sparks. Many of his novels have been turned into movies. One of his most successful…

April 9, 2018

Below is a video where two book editors talk about the business of editing. I have to say it sums up a lot…

February 23, 2018

I like bouncing around YouTube in search of interviews with successful writers who offer tips and techniques on how to writer your first novel….

March 23, 2017

WRITING A CHILDREN’S BOOK? The 7 Deadly Sins of Writing Children’s Books In the below video I give you the first 3…