Author: Morgan Hazelwood

Morgan Hazelwood (she/her) is a fantasy novelist who blogs and vlogs writing tips and writerly musings. She likes taking pictures of the sky, reading a good book, and ambiverting from her living room. She's also a voice for the fairy-tale audio drama: Anansi Storytime and its sister podcast: Legendsmith. She's been known to procrasti-clean her whole house and alphabetize other people's bookshelves.

Week In Review: September 17

Making sure you never miss a blogpost, podcast, video, or event with Morgan at it!

This week, I’m sharing the why I <3 writing, how I almost flubbed my logline, livestreamed query rewrites w/my friend Patrick, and an interview with emerging Portuguese SciFi author Bruno Martins Soares!

Check out this week’s round up!

Loglines versus Queries

After a resounding round of form rejections, I took a step back, revamped my query and synopsis, and am now getting back into the query trenches.

You’d think I know querying forward and backward — and I do, when I stop to think about it. But, recently, one of the query submission forms asked for a one-sentence pitch — a logline — I almost flubbed it!

Week In Review: September 10

Making sure you never miss a blogpost, podcast, video, or event with Morgan at it!

This week, I’m sharing the 4 components necessary to bring a scene to life, tips on writing/illustrating comics, livestreamed query rewrites w/my friend Patrick, and an interview with spec fiction author William R. Humble!

Check out this week’s round up.

Writing / Illustrating Comics!

The panel promised, “learn the ins and outs of what goes into creating a great comic book!”

While I’m not an artist, and have never been drawn to creating graphic novels, I’m a huge fan of web comics and fan of comics. So, I had to hit this panel.
Here are the tips they shared.

Author Spotlight: William R. Humble

This week’s Author Spotlight guest is William R. Humble!

William R. Humble is a transporter of the adventurous into speculative fiction realms with dual focuses on sci-fi and fantasy. So far, all people thus transported have returned safe and sound. Except Bob. We don’t talk about Bob.

Week In Review: September 3

Making sure you never miss a blogpost, podcast, video, or event with Morgan at it!

This week, I’m sharing my method for beta-reading, how to balance life and writing, and an interview with fantasy author Cully Mack!

Check out this week’s round up.

A Writer’s Two Worlds

In the dream world, we’d sit in front of notebooks and words would flow to the pages, never needing edits or revisions, and nothing would ever interrupt us.

Unfortunately, this is the real world. Here are tips on managing to get your writing in, and ways to support your writing.