We write what we know, and we write what we love, but what if you love something you haven’t discovered yet? Writing outside your comfort genre…
Your website may be pretty as can be, but without the right elements, it won’t serve you as an author. Fortunately, a few simple additions can…
Editing is demanding, frustrating, and essential to good novels (and short stories, and news pieces, and flash fiction, and…). Regardless of whether or not you work…
You have the story, but not the words. It’s a nasty form of writer’s block that feels like running through water in a dream, and it…
Spring cleaning reveals a lot about how we live and work. It also presents opportunities for freshened prose and strengthened habits. Scrubbing up sentences and clearing…
Sometimes your desk just doesn’t love you. All relationships have rocky periods, and the key to reconciliation is probably a break. Your desk needs some time…
We all have our favorite genres. We also have our favorite types of writing. If you’re here, you’re probably trying to write a book. That’s a…
Great villains make great stories. They may be more loved than the hero. But what cocktail of devious traits and nefarious schemes makes the perfect monster?…
A dream may be motivation. It may be a vision, and ideal, or a character all its own. How do you use them in your story,…
Horror is a messy sea of subgenres and phobias. While most of us discover its chills through scary movies and graphic novels, horror boasts a strong…