Author Heather McCorkle

Here is an abbreviated recap of last Monday's chat on finding the right beta readers or critique group: Heather McCorkle   Finding beta readers or critique groups can be the easy part. Finding GOOD ones, and keeping them, is much harder. #WritersRoad Yelena Casale   to  @HeatherMcCorkle There has to be a good balance betw a constructive critique and encouragement #writersroad Heather McCorkle   The key is to know what you're looking for in betas or crit partners, and be ready to reciprocate. #WritersRoad Karen Strong   It's important to know what you're looking for: Do you want structure, grammar, character development? Helps to know first. #WritersRoad Karen Strong   For instance, I'm not much into grammar and misspellings. I like having CPs who can do structure/plot/character stuff. #WritersRoad Melinda Primrose   to  @Yelena_Casale and you have to be willing to take the constructive criticism #write...

This week's chat was all about querying, when to query, how to query, and who to query. Here is an abbreviated recap, complete with links to the chatters on Twitter: @HeatherMcCorkle  Getting ready for #WritersRoad and it looks like we need a eulogy for TweetChat. It is dead as a door nail. So I'm using Tweetdeck. @HeatherMcCorkle  And of course that makes me think we need a chat sometime about where all those old sayings come from. #WritersRoad @Nightveil  to @HeatherMcCorkle Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to mourn our dearly departed TweetChat. #WritersRoad @HeatherMcCorkle  to  @Nightveil *raises hands in praise for its finer days* #WritersRoad @HeatherMcCorkle  When to query may seem like a given, when you're done with your manuscript, right? Well, yes, but, 'done' means well edited. #WritersRoad @HeatherMcCorkle  Agents and editors expect manuscripts to be polished now more than ever. If you send in a rough draft, your cha...

Here is an abbreviated recap of last Monday's live Writer's Road chat on the topic of Humor in Fiction: TS Tate (Tee) @teetate You have to let the narrative voice do much of the heavy lifting #writersroad TS Tate (Tee) Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million #writersroad TS Tate (Tee) million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly #writersroad TS Tate (Tee) primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” #writersroad TS Tate (Tee) @teetate In five measly lines, Adams does such a masterful job of establishing the irrelevance of humanity, #writersroad J B Mills @jbeemills I took a webinar about this from Robin Mellom, author of Ditched. It was great! #writersroad Charmaine Clancy @charmaineclancy @teetate My MG novels contain humour 'cause kids like that. And dogs, dogs ar...

Myself and the fabulous editor, TS Tate , moderate a weekly chat for writers on Twitter (most use Tweetchat ) every Monday night at 6pm Pacific Time called #WritersRoad. We chat about everything to do with writing and publishing. If you haven't dropped in on one yet, you're missing out! It has become a 'trending' topic on Twitter on Monday nights.  In fact, it has become so popular and is growing so much, that we'd like to invite guest moderators to step in for Tee or myself from time to time. Life gets busy, things demand our attention, but Tee and I never take a break from #WritersRoad. We're that dedicated to helping our fellow writers. And that's a big part of why, despite our busy lives, we refuse to let the chat go defunct like so many writers' chats have on Twitter.  If you're interesting in guest moderating, have no fear, either myself or Tee will be there with you. That way you'll have someone who is familiar with the crowd and th...