In my last post, A Million Words To Mastery? , I talked about whether writing a million words was sufficient to be, if not a creator of ...

We've all heard about K. Anders Ericsson and the 10,000 hour rule of thumb which holds that, roughly, 10,000 hours of practice is r...

When I first started writing, I had no idea how important a well-developed setting was for enabling a reader to imagistically enter...

Today I continue talking about murderously good mysteries and how to write them . The Five Elements: Milieu, Victim, Murderer, Sus...

According to David Vinjamuri ( The Strongest Brand In Publishing Is ... ) Lee Child's fans are the most loyal of any bestseller, ev...

Today I'm going to pick up where I left off Thursday (see: Point Of View: Elements ) and talk about a narrator's knowledge (res...

I said I would finish my post on narrators today but I've decided to put that off until Monday. Today lets revisit one of my favor...

Today I'm going to continue talking about the narrator; specifically, about how flexible a third-person narrator can be. Termin...

I've been sick. Not condolence card sick, but sick. First the flu then a nasty cold. Over the past few weeks, I've been tur...