Look what’s out in paperback tomorrow (June 4)! The Mortification of Fovea Munson by Mary Winn Heider. It’s LOL funny—the…
My essay “So Many Names” is out this week in an anthology from Coming to the Table: Slavery’s Descendants: Shared…
Barbara Kingsolver says, “[Writing is] a project of balancing the audacity to do this work, and the humility to keep trying until you’ve gotten it right.”
Whether you measure progress in daily word counts or butt-in-chair hours, writing a first draft means letting characters surprise you.
Last year I asked a friend if she’d collaborate with me on a novel, and she didn’t say YES right…
Is passion just an obsession with something you can’t seem to get better at, or is it the very thing…
This month I visited Alaska’s Denali National Park—not in person, but in prose—when I read Hannah Moderow‘s debut novel Lily’s…
I love talking craft—character development, plot, point of view, pacing, setting, dialogue. But hey, when a reader can’t get into…
I’m a girl who struggles to write girl characters, so what’s the deal, huh? I’ve asked this question for a…
Writers have to merge what they don’t know (what they imagine) with what they do know (tastes, textures, smells, sounds, images).