To outline or not to outline. There are few questions more contentious in the writing world -- and writers (God bless us!) can be a rath...

If I could only recommend one book on writing I wouldn’t hesitate. It would be Stephen King’s book, “ On Writing .”...

Writers are often told not to use adverbs in dialogue tags. For example: “You are dead to me,” he said coldly. Or, worse: “...

What is writing? To answer this question we need to examine what we're doing when we write, when we tell stories. In other words, wh...

Jim Butcher's posts on the art and craft of writing are the best I've read and have been of enormous help to me. I often recommen...

How Tabitha King rescued her husband's manuscript of Carrie from the trash is one of my all-time favorite stories. I've heard it...

Elizabeth S. Craig writes about passive verbs: What people sometimes confuse as passive voice is really the use of static verbs instead...

Jon Morrow tells us that On Writing by Stephen King has become "the most popular book about writing ever written, pulling in over 1...

Neil Gaiman and Stephen King are two of my favorite writers, so I was looking forward to reading King's interview and it didn't d...

Dan Schmidt, over at The Write Practice , has excellent tips on how to pick character names. I don't know about you, but I find cho...

In the final installment of the Starburst Writing Method we're going to take the scenes we created in the last two installments and u...

I love reading the writing advice of great writers. I hardly ever follow it, but still ... Here are John Steinbeck's six rules of w...

At nineteen they can card you in the bars and tell you to get the fuck out, put your sorry act (and even sorrier ass) back on the street...

Stephen King has written an introduction to a new edition of Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Here is an excerpt: To me, Lord of the...

Today I (finally!) mailed off the requested materials for my story, Until Death, to Harlequin.   Yea!  My writer friends told me that I simp...

 For years I have wanted to read Stephen Kings book, On Writing .  Last week I broke procrastination's steely grip and picked up...