Robert J. Sawyer & Dirty Harry For my second post today I want to share my notes from a workshop I took with consummate science fi...

Happy Thanksgiving! Last month at the Surrey International Writers' Conference (SiWC) I had the pleasure of hearing Jane Espenson ...

I try and do two posts a day and my previous post-- Using Permanently Free Books To Increase Sales: Part 2 --took up most of my blogging ...

A few days ago I talked about the strategy of making books permanently free to increase sales. (See: Writers: How To Use Permanently Free...

A couple of days ago I wrote about how science was beginning to understand the creative process. It turns out that when you're in cre...

Sometimes writers email me and ask how often they should blog, or what they should blog about, or how long their blog posts should be, an...

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...

Anyone who has gone through NaNoWriMo knows, at least a little bit, what its like to be a professional writer. You can't get writer...

I discovered Lindsay Buroker's blog only within the last few months but within that brief time it has become one of my favorites. A ...

Sometimes characters refuse to do what you want. You finish your outline, complete with a heartwarming theme and everything looks great. ...