Author Annie Kelleher sent me a great question about setting in her upcoming mystery (she’s a well-published writer) set in the Florida Keys...

Visit a chapter-in-progress from my forthcoming writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, at http://www.loft.org/for-writers/a-view-from-th...

The process of manifesting a published book, whether seen from the starting gate or halfway to the finish line, demands a lot of trust. We ...

We stand with our players, the souls who populate our writing, and we think we know them pretty well as we write our books. But do we? Wha...

How you open your book determines whether it's read. What's opening your story right now? Is it compelling? Exciting, like a flower ...

I'm a huge fan of collage. Making a collage, from bits of magazine photos and words and sketches and pretty much anything that can be g...

Finding a pathway through your book project can seem impossible at times. You haven't a clue where you're going, and what seemed li...

Imagine standing in a forest. This photo is from our family trip to see the California redwoods. Magnificent doesn't even describe th...

I'm opening my book-writing weekly workshops to new writers, so consider joining me for the next six-week session, starting February 1. ...

A writing friend, Jean Sands, author of the newly released book of poems, Gandy Dancing, sent round a lovely collection of quotes from write...