I met Mary Collins in a workshop I taught at Grub Street writing school in Boston a few years ago.  Her writing--and her enthusiasm--...

Choosing vulnerability in your writing. Always being open to learning more.  Embracing the support of a writing community.  Being wil...

Most writers know at least one self-publishing success story.  A famous one, almost an urban legend by now, is the story of Amanda Hock...

I recently watched the movie Argo, which was just released on DVD.  Movies like these I prefer seeing at home, so I can study their ...

A January 18 essay in the  New York Times Sunday Book Review, "I Change, You Change," by writer Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, discuss...

There are some important signs of burn-out that writers need to attend to.  An overactive Inner Critic.  A feeling of the blues about on...

July 2010.  I'm sitting next to Therese Pautz, a woman in my Madeline Island book-writing retreat.  It's midsummer and outside...

This week I am finishing yet another round of edits on my revision of Breathing Room, my next novel.  My wonderful editor, a flight exp...

In my online book -structuring classes, we always write a premise statement.  Most new writers have never heard of this focusing tool f...

The main reason books are rejected, according to one of my colleagues who is in the business?  Nothing happens. The stakes in a stor...