In the past few weeks, the writing community across the nation has been rocked by accusations of sexual harassment and…

Taking Control I know a lot of writers who feel that they don’t have control of their writing lives. After…

I’m helping a friend work on a story right now, and it’s a rather strange one. It’s the story of…

There comes a time when you’ve turned the corner on your story opening, and you feel like you’ve got it…

In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had several of my writing students report some great success in attracting agents…

Years ago, I sat down to write and just didn’t feel up to it; I woke up with a backache…

Very often as a reader, I’ll come across a story that is well written in many regards: The characters have…

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