Have you ever had trouble with a story, a scene, a blank page? Ask yourself this: What if … What…
Have you ever read a book and had it feel kind of … blah? I mean, the world, maybe the…
Your book reads too slow. Or too fast. And your writing is flat. I have had all sorts of rejections,…
Today we’re taking a trip to the dentist, going to extract a few teeth, no more than four, won’t hurt…
I won the Claymore Award! The Claymore is the award for best unpublished manuscript as determined by a jury of…
As Writer in Residence I’ve been asked a lot of questions about publishing. How to get published, how to self…
Last month I took a ‘master class’ in storytelling. It was by an up and coming film writer who just…
Over the last decade the pending death of books has been much ballyhooed (yes, I have now used ballyhoo in…
Each year I try to read at least one new book on craft. It could be on writing novels, or…
I was asked recently to think about why I write. And I wondered, why do we write? What drives us…