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Yesterday I talked about Mary Robinette Kowal's workshop The Mysteries of Outlining and promised to show how this could be used in ...

Photo by ajari, licensed through the creative commons Dialogue is important. What would a novel be without dialogue? But dialogue need...

This post is a continuation of Orson Scott Card & The MICE Quotient: How To Structure Your Story where I explain what Orson Scott Ca...

As I mentioned yesterday , I attended the annual Surrey International Writers' Conference last weekend and am brimming with informa...

Donald Maass gave the final keynote address at this year's Surrey International Writers' Conference. His theme: Your writing matt...

Book reviews help sell books, but many book review blogs won't review independently published work. For the past few months I'v...

I'm attending my third Surrey International Writers' Conference ( #SiWC2012 ) today but will be back Monday. I'll still post...

I love Johanna Penn's website, The Creative Penn . Not only does Johanna write fabulous books , but she is the author of hundreds of ...

A couple of weeks ago I joined John Ward's Google+ group for writers and since then have enjoyed his thought provoking articles and ...