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 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…
The worst part of the writing process is the blank screen, the white paper, the emptiness, the limitless possibilities. The best…
Oops, I did it again. No, no, I haven’t broken a guy’s heart à la Britney Spears, but I’ve repeated the…
This month I’ve been drafting chapters with points of view (POV) that alternate between characters. This is a challenge to…