Ever since I dusted this thing off , I've been trying to figure out what it is and what it needs to be. I need it to be a place potentia...

One of the most common points of feedback I give to my clients is about goals, motivations, and stakes: in every chapter and every scene, th...

  My wife has this Post-It on her desk, and I think about it all the time—every time I'm trying to figure out where to spend my time and...

I saw this comic by  Katie Shanahan the other day, and it's really stuck with me, so I want to share it. See, I'm 47 years old and ...

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...