With the long winter wrapping up, it seems many of us are also wrapping up book projects. I'm hearing from quite a few writers in revisi...

One of my favorite writing-craft guides, often recommended to writers who want to hone their scenes in fiction and memoir, is The Scene Book...

I learned early in my writing career that just because a writer was brilliant--well reviewed, published, and capable on the page--that didn...

I've been thinking a lot this week about the ways we tell stories. Some writers come from a background of oral storytelling, as in gathe...

A reader sent me a poignant email a few months ago. She's writing a memoir and happened to show segments to her family--for all the best...

Revision is the final stage of the book journey, after the gathering of material and the forming of a rough draft, after the structuring tha...

In real life, people operate under unspoken agreements that try to keep the status quo--whether that status quo is calm or the opposite. I...

I've just sent the revision of my third novel to my agent, and I'm at a loss. I sit, watching the snow fall outside my office window...

If I had a way to capture the self-talk inside most writers' brains, as they sit down to do their writing practice, here's what I mi...

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