I’m heading to the gym in an hour, part of my quest to develop flexibility. You know you gotta have it, or your body gets soft and...

Believable, empathetic characters are central to a novel. Oddly, though, they can get short-changed by writers. We know that readers look...

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Friends, save yourself a bunch of time: days, months (in my case years!) of flailing in the direction of getting your novel published....

In all of the frenzy to lock down the elements of story craft, we often forget what we’re talking about in the first place. That is, what...

Last time I talked about writing in scenes: what they are and how they can discipline your writing. But not all scenes are equal. We all...