Writing -- Nonfiction

If you're an author and you like to read nonfiction articles about writing instead of, you know, writing, here are my contributions to your bad habit.

As myself:
(Note: articles originally appeared in the SFR Newsletter or the MCRW Newsletter.  Many have been reprinted in other places, particularly the ones I have done for the MCRW Newsletter.)

100 a Day Keeps Writer's Block Away, 2003.  A useful inspirational club for forcing yourself to meet writing goals.
2003 SFR Holiday Gift Guide, 2003. What to buy your SFR loving friends in 2003.
An Authorized Website, 2002.  Dated links.  Some tips for creating a website as an author, including style tips.
Avoid Being a Turkey with the Turkey City Lexicon, 2003.  An overview of how romance authors can put the infamous Turkey City Lexicon to great use.
SFR Authors Who Straddle Publishers, 2003. Small versus large press, benefits and downsides.
By Hook or Crook, 2004. Opening hooks and sentences of novels--my take.
Cross Stars, 2001. Using astrology to create character matches and mismatches.
A Day in the Life of an Author With Child, X2, 2006.  My version of the challenges of being a Mom writer.
Dead as a Doornail: The Ease of a Good Cliché, 2001. How cliches aren't always evil and why they exist.
Fairy Tales as Story Outlines, 2001. Using a fairy tale as the basis for a romance novel.
Futurehunk!, 2002. What kinds of heroes show up in science fiction romances?
Harry Who?, 2000. What an SFR novelist can learn from children's science fiction and fantasy literature, plus a reading list.
How Babies are Like Aliens, 2002. Bet you didn't know...
How to be Loved by Contest Judges, 2001. An article inspired by my continuing run-ins with the RWA contest circuit. 
It's All About the Women: Silhouette Bombshell Line Review, 2004.  Short reviews of the first 8 Sil. Bombshell novels.
Me and Bobby McForm Rejection, 2006.  An author's quest to 'get a clue' about the submission process.
Review: Query Letter Critique with Kate Duffy, 2005 Conf. Workshop, 2005.  A brief review of the workshop from the conference tape.
Review: RWA Idol, 2005 Conf. Workshop, 2006.  A brief review of the workshop from the conference tape.
The Scary Thing, 2006.  Different reasons authors procrastinate when they should be writing. 
SF Poetry, 2000. Science fiction poetry genesis, markets, and reading list.
SFR Shorts, 2000. Science fiction romance short fiction plus markets and anthologies.
Snatch and the Romance Writer, 2003. Taking advantage of story inspiration whenever it hits you.
Top Eleven Ways Writing is Like Feeding a Baby Cereal, 2002.  This was when my kid was small.
Top Ten Ways Babies Are Like Vampires, 2002. This was also when my kids was small.
The Tricky Art of Backstory, 2003. How to work information into a novel without dumping it on a reader.
Unsticking What's Stuck: Head Laxatives for the Blocked Writer, 2002. Writer's block solutions.
Vampires: A Field Guide, 2002. Giant "quiz" to find out what kind of vampire is about to bite you based on literary examples.
Web Serials...Your Soaps Online, 2000. Dated links. Serial fiction online, much of it free, with an emphasis in SFR fiction.
Review: What Editors Don't Want to See, 2005 Conf. Workshop, 2005.  A brief review of the workshop from the conference tape.  Okay, maybe not so brief.  This is me we're talking about.
Worldbuild That Romance, 2002. Advice to SFR writers from SFR reviewers, who read a lot.

As The Grammar Wench:

And Then? And Then?, 2004. Is "then" a coordinating conjunction or what?
The Grammar Wench's Appositively Commas, 2003. The wench explains how to punctuate appositives.  More people than you think don't know how.
The Grammar Wench's Contest Judge Series:  The Basics, 2006.  Since the Wench behaves as if she's an authority on judging RWA contests, here are her thoughts on the basic skills a contest judge needs.
The Grammar Wench's Contest Judge Series:  The Difficult Manuscript, 2006.  What to say and how not to say it when the manuscript you're judging pains you like my examples above.
The Grammar Wench's Contest Rant, 2001. The first appearance of the wench, inspired by my first foray into the RWA Contest circuit.  It wasn't pretty.
The Grammar Wench's Dialogue Demo, 2003. In particular, how to punctuate dialogue. 
The Grammar Wench's Judging Tips, 2004. Things you can do so your wenchliness doesn't shine through as you judge contests.
The Grammar Wench's Punctuating Compound Predicates, 2003. An article a lot of you need to take to heart! Nyaa!
The Grammar Wench's Why Present Participial Phrases are Evil, 2003. They aren't, really, but they sure get overused.
Grammy, What's a Run-on?, 2004. Ever seen 'run-on' casually marked in your margin?  Well, what is a run-on sentence, really?

As the Grammar Wench's Cousin Maybelle:

Maybelle's Revised Character Archetypes, 2004.  Forget the Cowden/LaFever/Viders fiction character archetypes!  Here are the true-to-live versions.
Maybelle's SFR Character Archetypes, 2004.  Proof I couldn't leave well enough alone.  Twice.  How sad is it to parody a parody?  I mean, really.