If you've been writing like crazy during the past months of isolation, you may be ready to send your manuscript off to an agent or two i...

I got an email from one of the students in my last online Afternoon Character Intensive. Since the workshop, he'd had a mini-breakthrou...

One of my past clients has been working hard on her memoir. She emailed me a few weeks ago with a good question about the best rhythm for b...

Combing for new ideas, insights, and writing exercises to offer in my upcoming characters class on November 7 , I found a scratchy list I...

 Around this time of year, maybe because the back-to-school energy has tempted me, I begin to look at buying another writing book or two. I...

A great way to get your writing out there, seen by readers and possibly your future agent (agents browse literary journals and magazines and...

Mindy Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator when her son Jim threatened to kill her. It was his first psychotic episode. Mindy's n...

A blog reader recently wrote me: "As I write a middle-grade mystery book on pet detectives, I have changed some character names three...

First-time authors who love epics, such as Tolkien or the Outlander or Game of Thrones series, often ask me about word count for their manus...

Lila came to my remote "learn to storyboard your book" class to work on her novel. Recently, she emailed me, wondering if storybo...