Writing Tips

The other day I had an interesting question via email: "In your writing tips, you warned against submitting photos or ...

As a writer, I have found that one of the best ways of getting good feedback on works-in-progress is to ...

Are you in a writing rut? Have you tried brainstorming about your main character? This is an exercise I teach ...

I run a private online crit group where participants "pay" by giving critiques in order to get them from other ...

Dear xxx, Congratulations on being such an avid reader and writer. That's wonderful! As to the process of having a ...

There are lots of bad habits that can mess up a manuscript, but here are three that often show up ...

A reader emailed me today with a question that all writers get asked all the time, but this reader was ...

I finished the first draft of Making Bombs For Hitler in February and I’ve gone through two substantive edits since ...

Do a brainstorming exercise. Get a piece of paper and write down thenames of the two key players. Ask yourself ...