Is your manuscript, chapter, scene reader ready?  How do you know when it's time to share it?  Are you just looking for feedback beca...

Years ago, in a fiction class, a writer was defending his work.  "It really happened," he kept insisting to the feedback group...

A Twitter post from well-known novelist Joanne Harris, became a funny-wise commentary on what people think about writers, published recen...

A writer from New York emailed me:  "I'm learning how to create from who I am, show up and connect to readers," she said. ...

Tomorrow I will be at one of my favorite writing havens--the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis--teaching a room full of writers about ...

Good discussion this week in one of my online writing classes:  Bored with her story, a writer asked:  "How do I keep my own intere...

One of my favorite books to shake myself out of creative slumps is a thin little volume called Creative Authenticity.  Author Ian Roberts...

A reader from New York has been working hard on her first draft of a novel for over a year.  First drafts aren't easy.  Initially ...

Once you begin a book, you begin to live in overwhelm.  I'm talking about the sheer volume of documents--whether printed pages or vi...

A big challenge for most new book writers is figuring out time.  Not the time to write, but the time as it's portrayed in their bo...