Over this past summer, friends gave me these comments on the draft of a new YA novel: “I’m confused here. Are the…
I’m big on beginning novels in media res (in the middle of things), meaning jumping into a scene…
If you read only one book this summer, make it Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County. Part memoir,…
I should complete a first draft before deciding on my opening lines. I know I know I know this, but…
I recently read and commented on a number of submissions for Hunger Mountain, Vermont College of Fine Arts’ journal for…
What a joy to feature Wendy Wan-Long Shang on my blog today! Wendy is the author of the award-winning novel…
We live in a 45 year-old house just beyond the county utility lines, so we’ve got a septic tank out…
Today’s post is for every fiction writer with a manuscript (like mine) that isn’t quite working. I’ve hit the two-year…
I met Winifred Conkling in 2009 when we were students in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts,…
The worst part of the writing process is the blank screen, the white paper, the emptiness, the limitless possibilities. The best…