One of the most difficult things about blogging is deciding exactly what to blog about. To be honest, I think picking a topic is someth...

I have a confession: I’m a super-fan of Supernatural. I’ve rewatched the entire series—twice! Each time something new would pop; I’d get...

When someone writes a book in a week it's usually a nonfiction book, though it's perfectly possible to write a novella in 15 day...

I’m going to pick up the thread of my last blog post where I talked about two things that drive us to write: First, the desire to commu...

Are you competing in NaNoWriMo this year? I am! Although I’m putting a twist on it. Each day I'll blog about a key story scene as we...

Over the years I've written a few articles about the various ways a story can be structured (see: Short Story Structures: Several Wa...

I like writing descriptions for my stories about as much as I like eating day old spinach. So! In the best tradition of procrastinators...

To say that C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, while true, doesn't begin to cover the enormity of my debt to him. When I w...

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post, How to Write a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) story . It's one of my favorite posts bec...

Three dimensional characters are interesting. Readers care about them. So the question is: What makes a character three dimensional? R...

Today I want to share some of what I'm calling the Wisdom of the Web. There are many wonderful writing blogs out there with wonderfu...