The Writers' Lens Big Stories of 2013

The Writers’ Lens Big Stories of 2013

It’s been another great year, here are some of the top stories from each of the contributors to The Writers’ Lens! Read them again or check the posts you might have missed from throughout the year!

T.W. Fendley provides some great interviews and guest posts throughout the year here are three of the best from 2013!

Swoon Reads: Bringing Writers and Readers Together in Publishing

Guest post by Cori Bair

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/11/swoon-reads-bringing-writers-and.html

Guest post by James Dorr: The Marketing Game

Guest Post by James Dorr

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/07/guest-post-by-james-dorr-marketing-game.html

Gerry Mandel celebrates Charlie Chaplin with book giveaway

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/04/gerry-mandel-celebrates-charlie-chaplin.html

David Lucas writes a popular ongoing series of articles about Writing the Fight Scene. Here are two of those posts and another he wrote about writer mistakes.

Writing the Fight Scene: The Uses of a Cane

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/07/writing-fight-scene-uses-of-cane.html

Exploring Mistakes Writers Make: Not Finishing What is Started

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/07/exploring-mistakes-writers-make-not.html

Writing the Fight Scene: Your Character is Never Unarmed—and Neither are You

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/06/writing-fight-scene-your-character-is.html

Brad R. Cook writes about writing and writers, including his popular ongoing Lens On: Series.

Pearl Curran, A Writer Unlike Any Other

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/09/pearl-writers-unlike-any-other.html

Lens on P.O.V. (Point of View)

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/01/lens-on-pov-point-of-view.html

What Books Made You A Writer?

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/06/what-books-made-you-writer.html

In Case you missed it in 2013!

The Writers Lens continues to bring you interviews from the Missouri Writers Conference and to rebroadcast the St. Louis Writers Guild Author Series

MWG Conference

The 2013 Missouri Writers Guild Conference

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/05/the-2013-missouri-writers-guild.html

SLWG Author Series

SLWG Author Series - A New Twist on an Old Lecture Series

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/05/slwg-author-series-new-twist-on-old.html

Find all the MWG Conference and SLWG Author Series interviews on Youtube or on The Writers’ Lens Tumblr Page – http://writerslens.tumblr.com/

The Writers’ Lens is gearing up to bring you more of the great stories, interviews, and articles in 2014! 

The Writers' Lens 2013 Year End Review!

The Writers' Lens 2013 Year End Review!

by Brad R. Cook 

It’s been an exciting and successful year for The Writers’ Lens! Thank you to all of you who take a moment to stop by and read our posts! Don’t worry; in 2014 we’ll continue to bring writers a resource blog that provides advice along your publishing path.

This year went the same as last year in terms of readership – TW Fendley wins again with the most page views!

Here they are – the most viewed stories of 2013!

1 – St. Louis Writers Guild workshop June 1: Understanding local publishing options

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/05/st-louis-writers-guild-workshop-june-1.html

2 – Richard Brawer: Marketing free books

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/11/richard-brawer-marketing-free-books.html

3 – Giveaway & guest post by Gail Z. Martin: Promoting Your Book with Podcasts & Trailers

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/06/giveaway-and-guest-post-by-gail-z.html

4 – L&L Dreamspell: Making dreams come true

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/07/l-dreamspell-making-dreams-come-true.html

5 – St. Louis Writers Guild Write-ins To Celebrate NaNoWriMo!

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/11/st-louis-writers-guild-write-ins-to.html

I was just going to run with a Top 5 but this was too close not to include it!

6 – Writing the Fight Scene: The Third Person

http://www.thewriterslens.com/2013/04/writing-fight-scene-third-person.html

All of our top stories make sense; the winner for 2013 was a great workshop with several publishers about understanding your options. The next two are posts about marketing something all writers must master. The fourth most viewed post also contained the most comments of the year. Linda Houle’s passing affected a number of writers around the world and it is no surprise that TW Fendley’s touching tribute would be on this list. St. Louis Writers Guild NaNoWriMo Write-ins ended off the Top 5, and with hundreds of thousands of writers participating every year, it’s easy to understand how it made the cut. However, I felt the need to mention one more. David Lucas has been writing a series of articles on fight scenes and this one just missed the Top 5 by a few clicks, and The Third Person is the most read post in the series.

Next week I’ll post each of our Top 3 stories of the year, and the stories maybe you missed from 2013!

2014 is looking like another great year we hope you’ll continue to join us!

The Writers’ Lens, founded in 2011, is a resource blog for writers. Founding contributors TW Fendley, David Lucas, and Brad R. Cook are committed to Bringing Fiction Into Focus!