Karen Russell is an American writer whose debut novel, Swamplandia! was nominated and a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She has received numerous awards and her stories have been featured in The New Yorker, Oxford American and many other literary magazines. Her book of short stories, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves won the Bard Fiction Prize in … [Read more...] about 5 Writing Lessons from Karen Russell
Writing & Editing
The Importance of Writing for the Right Reasons
It is one thing to read about love, write about it in blog posts that are of 500-750 words and it another thing to write love stories of 5000 words at least… and that too 20 of them! Writing a book was a dream come true for me. It felt like finally I could see a destination and I had to run to reach it. Till now I wrote for the pure pleasure of writing, but now suddenly I had a … [Read more...] about The Importance of Writing for the Right Reasons
5 Tips for Crafting a Great Novel
Writing a novel is extremely difficult. Writing a novel of such greatness that people consider your work a craft, a skill, and a masterpiece is beyond difficult. Of course, many authors will claim that while they were working on their great novel, they had a lot of fun, and how one thing led to another and then it fell into place. They’re not lying – but they’re the exception … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Crafting a Great Novel
The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author – Always Going Forward
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.by Anna Bell I’ve written before about the psychological mind games I have to play in order to finish the first draft of a novel, and my current WIP is no exception. The most important rule I write a first draft by is that I only … [Read more...] about The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author – Always Going Forward
Storytelling: All about Desires and Dreams
We all are story tellers, aren’t we? What else would you call the way we cook up stories when we want to lie, when we manage to create imaginary characters just to please our children, when we write essays and autobiographies in schools or better still manage to grab the attention at get-togethers as we go about narrating simple day-to-day incidents with a panache that has … [Read more...] about Storytelling: All about Desires and Dreams