How to Create Tension without Overt ConflictNovember 21, 2024If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. I have a confession to make: I…
How Specifics Make Your Stories UniversalNovember 14, 2024One of the observations I most frequently make with authors’ manuscripts in my editing work is that key elements may…
World Building—for Yourself and Your Characters (or, The Reality You Can Choose to Create)November 7, 2024Much of what happens in the world around us is not ours to control. Buddhists will tell you that suffering…
Dealing with the Don’t-KnowOctober 31, 2024All of us who are pursuing a writing career have chosen a field rife with uncertainty. We don’t know whether…
Why Do You Create?October 24, 2024We go into a field where odds of success are phenomenally slim, and yet hope abides. We keep coming back…
My New Book Releases Today!October 15, 2024This week’s blog post is a couple of days early, because I wanted to share book release day with you. My…
Buyer Beware: Vetting Services for WritersOctober 10, 2024It’s incredibly seductive: the attention, the praise, the often legitimate talent and skill and experience of people offering to help…
Recovering from the Storm—Adapt and Carry OnOctober 3, 2024If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. The pictures, videos, and reports coming out…
4 Questions to Ask When Writing FlashbacksSeptember 26, 2024If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Two commonly misinterpreted canons of story can…
Turtle Truths about WritingSeptember 19, 2024Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. I…
