Whether you measure progress in daily word counts or butt-in-chair hours, writing a first draft means letting characters surprise you.
Last year I asked a friend if she’d collaborate with me on a novel, and she didn’t say YES right…
Is passion just an obsession with something you can’t seem to get better at, or is it the very thing…
“The first part of a book for me is hearing the character’s voice in my head. I don’t even take out a pen until I hear it strongly and consistently.”
Steve Watkins’s novel SINK OR SWIM takes readers to North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island one summer during World War II.
I met Gwen Cole two years ago at a fun author event (thank you, Richmond Public Library, for supporting YAVA -Young…
This month I visited Alaska’s Denali National Park—not in person, but in prose—when I read Hannah Moderow‘s debut novel Lily’s…
I love talking craft—character development, plot, point of view, pacing, setting, dialogue. But hey, when a reader can’t get into…
I’m a girl who struggles to write girl characters, so what’s the deal, huh? I’ve asked this question for a…
Writers have to merge what they don’t know (what they imagine) with what they do know (tastes, textures, smells, sounds, images).