As many of you know, for the past few months I’ve been posting one writing prompt a day on Google+ (I’ve begun archiving them on Pintere...

I’m fortunate. I’m amazed whenever I compare the sheer amount of excellent writing advice available today—for free!—to what was available...

Creating and maintaining a writing habit is, like writing itself, simple but far from easy. I know. There are habits I would love to ...

I’ve already written about how many of my favorite authors are avid gamers . (BTW, Chuck Wendig—a long time gamer as well as a game d...

Have you ever read P.D. James’ insightful and beautifully written book, “Talking About Detective Fiction”? In it she gives an impassi...

I’ve been obsessed. That’s my excuse for not posting anything for the past week or so. Like Dr. Frankenstein, I’ve been busy creating...

I’m always looking for a new, better, kind of pen. Perhaps you’ve heard the quip about the writer who owns enough pens and journals to ...

You’ve probably heard of Storium by now. Chuck Wendig, a creator of one of it’s 59 worlds, describes it this way: “Storium [...]...

Today I’m not going to talk about the structure of stories! We’re taking a break from that for a while. Today, rather than look at t...

Today I want to do something different. I’ve just finished a five part series on the structure of genre stories and want to turn to ...