I’m so glad to have had the opportunity to interview Meg Medina, author of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your…
Last month, a friend entrusted me with the privilege of skimming and commenting on her draft of a novel. Her…
Plots. So hard to conceive. So necessary to craft well. You’ll often hear writers talk about the struggle to tease…
Ask a novelist what he or she is working on, and you’re apt to get a rambling answer because the…
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…