Dear Indies: Stop Jumping The Gun
Dear Novelist, Not all indie books are created equal. Or rather, not all published indie books are equal. Every writer knows (or should know) the first draft isn’t good. It’s raw, rough, chaotic[…]
The Spark of an Idea!
Somehow I’ve always imagined Peter Pan and the Pied Piper as brothers. Their shared tick for snatching children away just fits so well. But I never thought it “out loud” until this week,[…]
Dear Novelist: To Edit or Not to Edit
DEAR NOVELIST SERIES ISSUE #1: Or when to lock the inner editor in a dungeon guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. Dear Novelist, You are reading this either because: a) You are a writer[…]
How I Overcome Writer’s Block
Writer’s block. The dread curse of the literary world. It happens to everyone. Often, the darn thing settles like a boulder in our already precarious path and doesn’t budge for days or weeks[…]