The Self-Made Writer

Seasonal Affective Disorder, a winter affliction, has a summertime counterpart. I call it SDD: Seasonal Distraction Disorder. The outdoors b...

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ~Ernest Hemingway My only daughter gets married today, on a bluff overlooking  Ka...

How do I know what I think until I see what I say? ~E.M. Forster I rarely outline, not at first anyhow. But like most writers, I do ...

Once upon a time there was an easy order to the business of writing: create, pitch, publish, promote. A writer’s creative energy went mostly...

No doubt you’ve met some despicable lunks, in literature as in life. So what’s all the fuss about likable characters? Let’s assume you...

When  a certain politician  released her autobiography a few years ago, a mock cover circulated:  All About Me , by Me, Me, Me. The Seusslik...

Scan advice from agents and editors, and you’ll find a common thread: too many writers send off their work before it’s ready. But how do you...