Last week we had a short story club - the selection was the magnificent C.L. Clark's short which has been nominated for awards recently....

Timing. Lining that up is a big plot point right? Where plot holes can occur. What techniques do you use to line it up? I will share some...

The chemistry was so fluid between him and her sister, why was it taking him so long to ask her out on a date? Was there something...

This week pitching season on Twitter began, and I was horrified. Let me back up. A few weeks ago we had a panel on LGBTQ representation,...

I have noticed that I have a tendency to make decisions with my writing that boxes me into corners in very unpredictable ways. On the one...

How it started: picture of the Road Runner How it's going: Picture of a sloth. I finished my first draft in May roaring to start...

Critiques should not be scary. I want to start by dispelling that myth. Putting your work out there and being told it is not good enough...

This is a topic I have posted a variety of ways on Twitter, but after working on my query letter I thought it would be a good idea to...

This week, we had a workshop to discuss some of the use of omniscient narration by some of us in the writing group, and we looked at a...

It's October! I expect a lot of spooky writing themes to be coming up. I am looking forward to creating a full section on this site for...

This, again, follows some things I have tweeted about. Writers everywhere debate about which POV to use. In my fraught discussions with...

I thought it might be fun to write a post discussing the development progress of the new project I started last week. It is fitting in...

Because I have a few books in progress, both on the reading and writing side, and that tends to make me feel overwhelmed and shut down...

I started one of my slated projects this week and I think it's so crazy and unique that I will be talking excitedly about it, and I am...

Since I started a new project, my new content in blog posts will probably decrease. However, one topic I realize I have not written about...

Recently a friend posted that he was releasing his first novel this week. I had no idea he was writing one, but immediately I was curious...

This is a follow-up to my previous post about the Publishing industry which should strive to represent the best in literature, and story...

I was also thinking of writing a post to go into the layers of inspiration for my current #WIP, but I am trying to brainstorm about how...

Last week I went on a date with a guy who has US/ Iran dual citizenship, but has not lived in the US since he was a child. My writer...

I have been thinking about a lot of overlapping issues, since I write about gender relations as a theme that comes up in a few of my...