A Journey through Writer's Block
There is often an assumption made that writer’s block is all one thing. That also implies there is one single solution for all writer’s...
How Do I Know if My Writing Is Good?
This is a very tricky, multi-part question, because there is no single objective answer. It is a mixture of objective and subjective...
Experience: Food for the Pen
I don’t remember when it was that I started to collect images, but it was probably some time in high school. I remember traveling with...
Writing “Right”: Is There One Way?
Once, at a convention, I heard one famous author comment on another’s writing style. The second author wrote more material than ever...
Keeping Characters Dynamic
One of the more frustrating things I encounter in television are characters who don’t learn from their mistakes, who don’t grow and...
What Are Stories For?
Stories are an integral part of human existence. We create stories from the time we are old enough to understand words until the time we...
The Cost of Writing
Why are books so expensive? Fifteen to thirty dollars for a fiction hardback, ten to twenty-five for a trade paperback, and a mass...
Bland or Beautiful: Standing Out from the Crowd
Recently I’ve been entering some Goodreads giveaways, because, free books. Since ideally I’d like to get books I want to read, I check...
Guns-on-the-Wall
If a writer tailors their writing toward a reader, rather than writing something intended to be purely private, they need to keep the...
Precise or Purple: How Much Detail Is Too Much?
This is a hard question, because tastes differ a lot from writer to writer and from reader to reader. Between Hemingway and Melville is...
