I was a lawyer for almost a decade, and every brief I wrote was edited by other lawyers. This never…
Tag: Craft
November is my birthday month, and I recently had my 48th birthday. That’s right. I think of myself as “pushing…
Being good at something doesn’t mean you should do it. I wanted to be a writer from a young age, and…
This week it’s about age. How old we are. How old we feel. How old we write. I am the…
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” —Ernest…
How does the old saying go? Behind every good man is a good woman. That adage drives the feminist in me…
I’m supposed to give y’all advice on how to write through distraction, but that’d be like an active alcoholic talking…
Stephanie Gayle is the author of MY SUMMER OF SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT, one of Redbook magazine’s Top Ten Summer Reads,…
The sales cycle for I LIKED MY LIFE went like this: edit, send to a handful of publishers, collect rejections,…
This week we’re talking about our submission process, and what’s been interesting to me is how different each of those…