Last month, a friend entrusted me with the privilege of skimming and commenting on her draft of a novel. Her…
Plots. So hard to conceive. So necessary to craft well. You’ll often hear writers talk about the struggle to tease…
Ask a novelist what he or she is working on, and you’re apt to get a rambling answer because the…
I’m scared right now. Scared that I won’t be able to write another novel, or at least, not one worth…
This past month I was one of the logistics people behind the best-kept secret on the writing conference circuit: the…
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club begins like this: Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing…
My debut novel will be released in 2013, so I applied for the SCBWI Book Launch Award—some extra funds to…
My agent nixed the novel I finished drafting earlier this year, and it’s taken me a couple of months to…
Here is yesterday’s fabulous post from io9.com: The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar, written by storyboard artist Emma…
When lots of characters are introduced at the start of a novel, I can’t keep them straight. No matter how…