We all have war stories from bad feedback.  If you've been writing and attending conferences or classes for more than a few years,...

Storyboards are a fast and easy template to check the strength of a book's structure.  More and more writers use them.  I hear about f...

Guest Post by   Memoirist and Singer/ Songwriter Elisa Korenne Elisa Korenne entered the creative-writing world as a songwriter. ...

Nicki, a blog reader from South Carolina, is putting together a website for her book.  She wondered about great author websites or tips...

    A writing rule I wish I knew when I started out:  to create tension in your scenes, two or more elements of power must be combine...

Emotions reveal us, but we don't often reveal our emotions.  Players on your page are the same.  They show us who they are via move...

Writing dialogue should be easy, right?  Most of us talk.  We text, we email, we use words in conversation all the time.  We listen (some...

In 2004, I decided to leave my full-time editing job at a small publishing company in the Midwest, move to New England and go back to sc...

Elizabeth diGrazia joined me last week on Madeline Island, where she worked on her storyboard for her memoir-in-progress--the same memoi...

Bestsellers make me curious.  Sometimes they are worth attention, sometimes they are all hype and bad taste--a great example of the latte...