A few days ago I wrote a post about how to use MS Excel to outline a novel. That post grew out of my own need for a visual structure, a w...

I was mulling over what to write about for this post when I realized I haven't told you about the workshop I took from Donald Maass o...

It's the middle of NaNoWriMo and I need an infusion of writing wisdom. So I've turned to Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, PD James a...

The question is inevitable. You're at a get-together and someone asks you, "So, what do you do?" Fair question, right? Th...

In a recent post Nathan Bransford talked turkey about Point of View. First Person In the first person perspective everything that ha...

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Yes, that's right, 10,000 words a day. It's not a typo. Google+ is terrific! For the past few weeks I've been busy meeting ...

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" November dreaming " by mpclemens under CC BY 2.0 A few months ago one of my friends recommended Jim C. Hines' blog , a...

" Stairwell, Annecy " by Alex Brown under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license . A couple of days ago a friend menti...

Yesterday I promised to write an article about the last tool Mary Robinette Kowal introduced in her (terrific!) workshop at SiWC last w...