How Much Should You Plot Your Stories?
Ask most writers how they write and you’re liable to hear that they are a “plotter”—one who works out their plot before beginning to draft—or a “pantser”—one who just sits…
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Attack of the Inner Demons!
It feels like it’s been a minute since we’ve talked about inner demons—those little buggers who live within many of us and periodically marshal their forces for a concerted attack…
How Do You Value Your Creative Work?
Forging a viable, sustainable writing career is a combination of the two prongs inherent in the term: art and commerce. The latter demands we find a monetary way to value…
Caveat Scriptor: When Creators Become the Customers
The current DOJ antitrust trial about the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon and Schuster has got the publishing and writing worlds chattering about some of the facts and stats…
How Writers Revise: Elisa Lorello and Rediscovering Joy
Elisa Lorello began her writing career later than she hoped, but she came to it as an early adopter of self-publishing that eventually springboarded her to the heights of commercial…