“ We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master .” — Ernest Hemingway In honor of NaNoWriMo, every day this ...

“ I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an int...

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentence...

“ I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit...

People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and com...

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. —William Faulkner Welcome to the November madness that ...

“ When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie ...

I find that when I write, as in life, I need to know where I’m going in order to get there. Yesterday I tackled the first key story scen...

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose . —Stephen King Welcome to NaNoWriMo  madness! Every day this...

Every day in November I’m going to lay out the structural bones of a crucial story scene.  I'll then break this scene down for three ...