When the snail’s pace of publishing gets you down, look to the parts of your writing career you can control. The publishing industry is slow. Mind-bogglingly slow. It consists of equal parts hurry-up-andwait, we-need-it-now, and...
Six secrets to writing scenes of perfect length. If you’re like me, when you started writing, you followed rudimentary instincts on all craft questions. Characters simply appeared out of thin air; they did things (or they didn’t!). The...
Five Zero-Draft tricks to ensure tight pacing. My early reading career involved a lot of epic fantasy. If the book had a dragon, sword, or white-haired wizard on the cover, I pretty much bought it without so much as glancing at the back cover...
Keep creative momentum when you have little time to write. The poet William Carlos Williams wrote lines, ideas, and poems on prescription pads between ministering to patients in his office or on scraps of paper in the car between visits....