Plots. So hard to conceive. So necessary to craft well. You’ll often hear writers talk about the struggle to tease…
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…
In the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, John Stazinski (page 29) bemoans the tendency of MFA programs…
In mid-March, as I staffed the James River Writers (JRW) table at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville,…