Aug 13, 2012Scenes that kill storyAmid all that we’re trying to do as novelists, sometimes we lose sight of one thing that at first glance seems obvious: The crucial...
Aug 6, 2012Knitting plot and desireOne of the best questions you can ask of your story-in-development is: Why is this character in this story? That is, why this character...
Jul 30, 2012Getting inside the reader’s headOne of the goals of fiction is to evoke a feeling, atmosphere and understanding–in the reader. As a writer, you have things you want to...
Jul 23, 2012Protecting your storyEver think how odd it is that writers want to create their own stories–but then they want others to tell them how to change it? It seems...