David Mack wrote , "It's not the writing that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write." I've been thinking ...

If you didn't already know: in writing, use strong verbs . A common amateur mistake is to toss adjectives and adverbs into a sentence t...

It's to the point now where my wife and I will see a movie just because Pixar made it. Finding Nemo and The Incredibles are two of m...

There are two kinds of writers*: planners and non-planners.** Planners think, brainstorm, outline, and do all of the other stuff that your ...

UPDATE (Feb 23, 2010): The first chapter of Travelers is no longer available online as it no longer represents my best work (far from it, i...

In Agent Query's advice on submitting to agents , they suggest pacing yourself, querying batches of no more than 10 agents or so. This ...

For all my worrying about it , it just occurred to me that by the time I get to the story after Air Pirates, YA could easily be as saturated...