Welcome to Crystal Crawford's official author blog!

Writing is solitary, but I have learned how much stronger and better, my writing can be when I have the benefit of a writing community.

Writers have a unique and important challenge: take ideas, experience, language – and assemble them into something altogether different...

How do you overcome the fear of others reading your work? The simplest answer to this is actually the most difficult to execute...

As both a writer and a writing instructor, I read a lot of books on writing.  Here are my top book recommendations for writers.