For decades I've studied the element of accountability--what it means for the creative person, especially those involved in a long-haul ...

Where do you dream of publishing your book? How realistic is that dream? What are you willing to do to get there? I am fortunate to know wri...

A blog reader suggested this great topic: what's the best way to go about finding the "right" writing class or conference for ...

Last week, when I taught my all-day workshop on storyboards, I didn't tell the 30 wonderful writers my real feelings about storyboards. ...

My love affair with Scrivener didn't exist before I wrote books. I was a dedicated Word user; I wrote stories, essays, and poems, column...

Query letters are a bear to write. So many writers who have finally published their novels, memoirs, or nonfiction books remember the agoniz...

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

In my post a month ago, I ranted a bit about IM, or internal monologue, a technique that so many writers use to reveal the internal landscap...

A MG (middle-grade fiction) writer in one of my past online classes posted a great question that sums up the main struggle most of us have w...

My home is noisy these days: two young dogs, all their toys and bones and chewsticks, the running and growling and play they love. I love it...