This is an alphabetical list of Best Words blog posts with advice on writing. Most are written by me; guests posts are indicated. Also included are guest posts I did on other sites. These are all clickable links.

-A-
A Close Up View (editing)
Advice to New Writers
Appropriate Sensory Details for Your Setting
Are You Protecting Your Writing?

-B-
Backstory Bog
Best Beginning Words
Blunders that Stop Me Reading - part 1
Blunders that Stop Me Reading - part 2
Blunders that Stop Me Reading - part 3
But That's How People Talk

-C-
Catchy Words and Rhythm Reel Us In
Clean Links
Close Point of View or Staying in One Head
Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (part 1) - my guest post on another author's blog aimed at teen writers
Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them (part 2) - my guest post on another author's blog aimed at teen writers
Connecting with Other Writers

-D-
Dangling Participles (guest post)
Downs and Ups

-E-
Edit or Not?

-F-
Finding a Critique Group
Flashbacks

-G-
Getting Feedback on Christian Fiction
Getting the Setting Details Right (Guest Post)
Getting to the End
Good Critique, A
Got Grammar?

-H-
How to Boost Branding like a Boss for Beginning Self-Publishers (guest post)

-I-
The Importance of a Book Cover
I’m Terrible at Public Speaking
Introduce the Cat
Introspection Insights
It's Taxing

-J-
Join the Conversation
Jumping into the Story

-L-
Life's Disruptions
Likable Characters - my guest post on another author's blog

-M-
Maybe I Should Quit
My Best Tips from the Trenches on Revision - my guest post on another author's blog
My Writer's Journey - guest post on another author's blog
My Writing Process Related to the Books I Loved - a guest post on another author's blog

-P-
Path to Publication - guest post on another author's blog
Pleonasms and Other Overusages

-Q-
Queries Can Teach

-R-
Reviews and Other Publicity
Rewriting, again!

-S-
Self-Editing aka Rewriting My Fiction
Short Story Versus Novel
Slow Writing
So You Want to Be an Author (guest post)
Stay in the Phone Booth
A Story Roadmap - my guest post on another author's blog
Story Timelines

-T-
Taglines and Beats in Fiction
Take Courage
Tantalizing Titles
Thanks to Copy Editors
Transitions
Travel Reading -- the Ups and Downs
Try Something New

-W-
Waiting Game, The
We All Make Mistakes
What Holds Our Writing Together?
What Makes a Likeable Character?
When the Words Won't Come
Why I Write Clean
Words Beget Words
Writer + Tenacity = Success - my guest post on another author's blog
Writing a Believable Christian Character - my guest post on another author's blog
Writing Encouragement
Writing Feeling Dry? Vary Sentences to Make Your Writing Interesting (guest post)
Writing Mistakes
Writing on Hold