For months I’ve been trying to find the right opening for the novel I started in 2013, and I think…
I should complete a first draft before deciding on my opening lines. I know I know I know this, but…
I met Winifred Conkling in 2009 when we were students in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts,…
Author-illustrator Cece Bell is coming to the James River Writers conference in Richmond, VA, on October 18-19, and how lucky am…
My agent recently had this to say about my current work-in-progress: she couldn’t identify with my main character and couldn’t…
After attending an excellent James River Writers panel discussion (“The Writing Show”) and Master Class in April with authors John…
How and where is it best to enter into a particular story—which moment, which sounds and which smells should a…
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…
Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club begins like this: Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing…