A good book proposal is like handing an agent a perfect rosebud. It smells wonderful, it hints of much more. It's meant to entice, stimu...

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On Monday, my weekly book-writing class talked about the desperation that writers get: the need for perspective about their books. Where are...

I was thrilled to have a visit on my blog from a writing mentor, Ken Atchity, who authored A Writer's Time, one of the textbooks used in...

In her book, Thunder and Lightning, free-writing expert Natalie Goldberg describes a writing exercise she created after reading Borrowed Ti...

Imagine trying to describe the image to the left. Lights swirling all over a black background? Winter wheat in a field, caught by the last s...

Outside my office window, the snow is coming down fast. I cancelled a dentist appointment today, shoveled the steps, walked to the mailbox, ...

Goal-setting doesn't work for many book writers. Maybe we're too random. Maybe we need more flexibility than traditional goal-settin...

What's your dream for your book this year? Try a simple new-year's exercise to find out. It's called a presume --a word coined ...

Your book has a major and minor cast, whether you're writing fiction, memoir, or nonfiction. People move stories, illustrate theories an...