A while back, I posted on point of view (POV), a primer on what it’s all about and the basic navigation principles for mucking about with...

Do you have to wait until you’re in the mood to write? Are you blithely making excuses for not writing? Is this non-writing the result,...

How do you start a story? Do readers expect a nice big grabber scene? And at what point does the plot kick in? I said in my last post,...

Not everything you read on writing blogs is true. It kills me to admit it, but sometimes I’m just dead wrong. Blogs, even by seasoned...

Sometimes small really is beautiful. Take conferences. Ever feel overwhelmed and lost at those big rallies? Me too. Often a small...

There’s an odd dance we play with character. Major characters should come alive on the page. But we can’t label them, point at them, tell...