If you read very many writing blogs and go to workshops, you must be getting the impression that novels need a lot of stuff and some of...

Amid all that we’re trying to do as novelists, sometimes we lose sight of one thing that at first glance seems obvious: The crucial...

One 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...

One 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...

Ever 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...

Lately I’ve been thinking: Great stories don’t so much come from expertise, training and talent as they come from what you believe. You...