Last week, I talked about being "preachy" in fiction and why it's maybe not as bad as people think it is. In particular, ther...

I think I learned a bad lesson when I was a brand new writer—or maybe it was a good lesson that I just took too far. The lesson was this: Do...

Sometimes, you're just doing so much creative stuff in a day or a week (or more!) that you don't have the creative resources you nee...

Some of you know that I hate drafting —which is weird for a writer to say, I know, but that's the way it is... or at least the way it wa...

I have my own issues with generative AI , but it is  good at some tasks—tasks that (if it weren't for the copyright theft, plagiarism, l...

To recap the last few posts, we've talked about the following: What world-building is and how to get started How to keep your world-buil...

This is part of a series on fictional world-building. We've talked about how to get started , how to organize your thoughts , and how yo...