What's the difference between a writer who gets a book finished and a writer who never does?  A writing routine.  Believe it--there...

Deciding who is telling your story--that's a big moment in writing a book.  But even more important is deciding where your narrator ...

When we happily begin our books, we really don't know what kind of time they will take. Such naivete is a good plan, in a way. Igno...

The inner story of a book is the transformation of a person, the main character or narrator, through a series of outer events.  This is...

This week I am teaching about fighting--at a serene writer's retreat on beautiful Madeline Island in Lake Superior.  An odd topic fo...

I'm not a thriller writer.  I've edited thrillers, I've read them, I've taught thriller writers how to structure and ref...

I just spent ten days at a cabin on a lake, high in the mountains, and I didn't work on my novel.  I intended to.  I brought my lapt...

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...