Ernest Hemingway famously said all first drafts are garbage, except he used a way more *effluent* term instead of garbage.…
Category: craft
I’ve written previously about how I have an MBA, not an MFA. And how that didn’t work out so great…
My fellow Debs and I are blogging this week about our favorite types of scenes to write, and it made…
“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…
Imagine, if you will, the author in her very early twenties. She’s two months out from her college graduation, completing…
“You have a book coming out. Aren’t you excited!” “Excited” is not the word that I or anyone around me…
We can discuss pitching and pitch letters till the sky turns green, but what would probably be more helpful is…
Well, I’m glad Halloween is over. Now it’s time for more prosaic fears. Myself. Yup, it’s that time of year…
Maybe you don’t know this about me yet, but I’m a big procrastinator. I mean BIG. So when I ship…
