If you aspire to write, you know the dream—quit the day job, write full time, make bucketloads of money doing it. Yeah. I’m familiar with…

I’ve heard it stated over and over at conferences, in blog posts and articles, and from my editor, Paula. Good writing isn’t about a character,…

That first summer I worked with Paula on editing my manuscript, I read more than I wrote. Some of the books I read were helpful,…

How hard can it be? Remember that? Yeah. (Nostalgic sigh.) I must admit I was overwhelmed at the thought of reducing the 800K-word tome I’d…

Writers are omniscient, at least within their own worlds. They know who’s doing what to (or with) whom and why, what the probable outcome will…

As I said last week, my initial foray into writing fiction was flawed. In the science fiction market, the genre for my first novel, acceptable…

Nobody takes fiction writers seriously. That’s what I used to think. As a volunteer journalist and editor on a small non-profit press for more than…