I put the following together for my own use (I'm doing #NaNoWriMo this year), but I thought others might be interested as well so...

NanoWriMo is over! If you participated and wrote more than you would have otherwise, you’re a winner. If you ended up writing 50,000+ wo...

I find that when I write, as in life, I need to know where I’m going in order to get there. Yesterday I tackled the first key story scen...

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose . —Stephen King Welcome to NaNoWriMo  madness! Every day this...

Every day in November I’m going to lay out the structural bones of a crucial story scene.  I'll then break this scene down for three ...

Ever been stuck for a plot? You wanted to write something but all your ideas fled, leaving you with what seemed like an infinite white ...

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us! What is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo (or NaNo for short) is a terrific way to help kickstart a creative ...

In this article I explore several plot wheels and examine how they can be used to generate ideas during NaNoWriMo (or anytime!). But, f...

NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and I'm getting excited. November is the national novel writing month (NaNoWriMo) when scads o...

I'm excited! For months I've been looking for a really good sink-your-teeth-in analysis of short story structure. Today I found...