Ernest Hemingway famously said all first drafts are garbage, except he used a way more *effluent* term instead of garbage.…
Category: Craft
To plot, or not to plot? It’s the perennial question writers everywhere eventually face. The internet is rife with articles…
I’ve written previously about how I have an MBA, not an MFA. And how that didn’t work out so great…
Hello Friends, I’m here today writing about tips for writers. I am the social media maven for The Debutante Ball…
“It’s a black fly in your chardonnay. It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late.” Alanis Morissette was kind…
When writers talk about “world building” they mean more than just setting. Setting is where a story takes place. But…
When I was in my undergrad program for fashion, I took my very first writing gig blogging for a recently…
R. Eric Thomas may be the funniest current events writer around. In “Eric Reads the News” at Elle.com, he presents…
Lisa Barr is the author of The Unbreakables (HarperCollins) a delicious, sharp novel about a Chicago woman who jets off to France after…
You always hear people talking about muses whispering in their ear, as if in a trance, or their “characters” speaking…