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How A Hotdog Made Me A Better Writer
by Linda Escalera Price My mother refused to teach me to read. I was about 3, and she thought if I learned to read then, I would be bored when I started kindergarten. So I taught myself to read by...
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Crafting The Character Arc: Publication Announcement (News)
5writers.com is delighted to formally announce the publication of Crafting The Character Arc: A Practical Guide to Character Creation and Development. This craft book, written by 5writers.com...
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Death Poems: Peverse and Pedestrian Ways of “Making it New”
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Macbeth Act IV Scene 1 by Ron Hayes Recently I was speaking with a colleague new to our school. He had just learned that I was the...
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Writing As Catharsis: Writing As A Coping Mechanism
by Jennie Jarvis One of the sad truths about being human is that we will, without doubt, have to deal with death at some point in our life. Even if we are the most anti-social person in the world and...
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Death in Writing – It’s Not a Story Unless Someone Dies by Brad Windhauser
Death in Writing – It’s Not a Story Unless Someone Dies by Brad Windhauser I don’t have a morbid fascination with death. I didn’t grow up surrounded by death. Although I did have the extreme misfortune...
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Special Edition – Horror Writing: Playing an Insidious Game by Sidney Williams.
This month, 5writers.com is delighted to welcome guest blogger Sidney Williams. Sidney Williams is the author of numerous traditionally horror and thriller novels and short stories. His work has been...
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Paying Tribute to the Ones Who Have Inspired and Supported You – Adding...
Paying Tribute to the Ones Who have Inspired and Supported You – Adding Little Flourishes to Your Stories by Brad Windhauser With Thanksgiving approaching, we have decided to discuss a different way to...
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Hats Off: Ten Things To Consider When Writing Your Acknowledgements
by Jennie Jarvis As Brad stated in his great post last week, this month we here at 5 Writers are getting into the spirit of Thanksgiving and talking about paying tribute in our work. For me, this topic...
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What’s In A Name? Thanks!
by Linda Escalera Price On January 28, 1986, I stood in stunned silence in my office parking lot in Jacksonville, FL as the plume of Space Shuttle Challenger exploded into two hideous plumes. Fourteen...
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Writing Your Accomplishments: Jennie’s Challenge to Help You Be a Better...
By Jennie Jarvis Each December, we here at 5writers.com like to take the month of December to look back at the past year to reflect on what happened and make our goals for next year. For me, 2014 has...
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Challenge Accepted!
by Ron Hayes Okay, I’m doing it. Color it a cop-out entry from for this month, but I’m taking Jennie up on her challenge. While my Catholic upbringing will continue to nag at me that this won’t be a...
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The Year That Was: Reflecting on 2014 and Looking Ahead to 2015 by Brad...
The Year That Was: Reflecting on 2014 and Looking Ahead to 2015 by Brad Windhauser When I was a kid, the approach of Christmas made me giddy: the decorated tree, my aunt’s delicious cookies, the large...
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Living in the Present Tense
by Linda Escalera Price I’m supposed to be writing about reflecting on the past year and setting goals for the future. But in the past two months, I learned about an ALS diagnosis, went to the funeral...
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My Year of Nothing
Where the heck is the car? Jerry Seinfeld is famous for his “show about nothing,” which some would argue is actually about everything, a group of friends experiencing the absurdity and hilarity of...
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Don’t be a Punk!: The Secret to Marketing Your Work
By Jennie Jarvis People who have never worked within the film industry are often surprised when I tell them about the ins and outs of how a screenplay gets turned into a movie. Well, maybe “surprised”...
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All You Need Is Decency: Networking and Butt Sniffing For Beginners
By Jennie Jarvis As the Faculty Chairperson for the Florida Writers Conference, and as an attendee at countless other writing conferences and film festivals, I’ve come to learn how terribly awkward...
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The Secret to Writing Fantasy: Reality
by Jennie Jarvis In both my screenwriting and my novel writing, a lot of my work has been in the fantasy genre. I’ve created worlds where leprechauns play tricksters, where yokai run shops, and where a...
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Don’t You Lie To Me! By Michael Tabb, WGA
5writers.com is pleased to welcome guest blogger Michael Tabb, WGA. WGA writer Michael Tabb has written for Universal Studios, Disney Feature Animation, comic book icon Stan Lee, and industry players...
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Challenge Accepted! (Update)
by Ron Hayes Well. Welcome Spring! While I can’t know what it’s been like for you where you live, I can tell you that in my neck of the woods, we are only just now beginning to emerge from the frigid...
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In Case You Have Missed Them: Authors to Be Reading Now by Brad Windhauser
In Case You Have Missed Them: Authors to Be Reading Now by Brad Windhauser Last month, we discussed writers who have influenced us. Understanding your influences helps you best appreciate how he or she...
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