It’s fairly common for editors to want to change titles. Sometimes a title might be too much like that of…

For a few articles, I’ve been talking about how to make your story come alive by appealing to the reader’s…

Today at the Writers of the Future workshop, I assigned a dozen new writers to go finish a short story…

Very often I have new writers ask if I will pass their work along to an agent or editor, sort…

Last week I wrote about appealing to the senses and stated that humans have more than just the five sensory…

Most writers don’t know how to write prose that entangles a reader’s imagination. Envision a reader picking up your novel.…

A lot of people “play” at writing. We tend to think of it as a hobby or a pastime. But…