There are many doors into a story. I’ve heard writers say they start with character or an image from the plot. Both are great jumping off...

Sometimes writing a novel isn’t so much about deep character or tight plot, but about something far more mundane: like keeping track of...

What is your writing dream? Is to finally break into publishing, to see your novel on the bookstore shelf and to enter into the elite...

OK, we’re talking plot again. Let’s say you’re telling your story to a group around a campfire. Are they hugging their knees in fear and...

We don’t like to think of categories for our writing. We write from the heart, giving our perspective of the world and the human heart....

I failed miserably this year to keep up with all the good fiction reads coming out. I was distracted by research reading, my son’s...