Joe Konrath writes: One of the biggest reasons I wanted to regain control over my legacy books was so I had say-so over the price. I fe...

Writing A Novel In 10 Days That's right. Dean Wesley Smith is writing a novel in 10 days ! If you're boggled by that--and I w...

When we're using a point-of-view character we know what they know. We see what they see. We hear what they hear. But what a characte...

Love it or hate it, E.L. Jame's 50 Shades of Grey series is a huge economic success. I knew that. We all knew that. What I didn...

Or, to use Kris Rusch's term, when is a story ready to be released into the wild?" "Into the wild." I like that phras...

In the spirit of Jack Kerouac's list of thirty points he called "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose: List of Essentials" ...

Yesterday I asked a friend what kind of short story I should write next. He thought about it for a moment and said, "Why don't yo...

Create Your Own Magazine And Share It With The World, Or Just Your Friends This is great! Have you ever wanted to curate your own magaz...

It seems like a contradiction of sorts, I love reading murder mysteries--whodunit's--but I've never written one. I think about w...

Yesterday I started writing about Janice Hardy's excellent article, "What Downtown Abby Can Teach us About Tension," and her...