Plots. So hard to conceive. So necessary to craft well. You’ll often hear writers talk about the struggle to tease…
I’m pushing… pushing… pushing through weak writing to create new scenes before revising/perfecting the old. First drafts are always full…
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…
During one of JRW’s twitter-chats (#jrwc12) with upcoming conference speakers, we were posing questions for Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of Fingerprints…
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…