As Dwight V. Swain says in Techniques of the Selling Writer , sequels take the protagonist from the disaster of one scene to the goal o...

Now that I've talked a bit about genre and how important it is to know what genre, and subgenre, your book falls into, I'd lik...

Did you know that, since 2001, James Patterson has sold more books than any other writer? Apparently 1 out of every 17 hardcover books ...

When writing a scene, how much description is enough? All writers have certain things we do well--or at least, that we do better t...

In previous posts I've written about Stephen King and how his prose possesses the almost magical quality of being able to draw me i...

This post concludes a series I began in my last post: What is a Scene?   Conflict E.M. Forster, in Aspects of the Novel, writes...

Jim Butcher describes a scene as the place "where all the plot in your book happens. Any time your character is actively pursuing ...

I feel silly.  For years I've noticed a technique of Stephen King's, I've even written about it and mentioned that it ...