People tell me not to call myself “old,” as if denying it will change the truth of it. (My mom is still well at 97, so I have it in...

The other day while we were taking our evening walk, he told me about a “stupid mistake” (is there any other kind?) he’d made. Then he...

For the last week or so, I’ve been working on the novel I wrote in November during NaNoWriMo. Today I admitted to myself, that while...

I was surprisingly anxious about beginning, but found it neither too hard nor too easy. Maybe that’s what we call “just right?”...

In case there is anyone out there who doesn’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It’s an idea, a concept, a...

Canadians do not say such sentences casually. We say it with the same emotion as someone would say, “I won the lottery!” It stays cold...

I’m speeding along at a rapid, first-draft clip, feeling on top of my writing game, when I find myself rather suddenly up against a wall....

So how do you come up with complex, interesting characters? Get them to talk. Engage them in conversation. Ask them questions not only...

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working draft When I became an editor for Third Person Press, I had no idea what a vast improvement being this role would make to my own...

[singlepic id=7 w=320 h=240 float=left]Getting a writing project to the completed draft stage is delightful, but there’s a downside. If...