First Draft

  Just like adding spices to the pot bubbling on the stove-top to add richness to the food, dialogue adds richness to fiction. Finding bal...

Yesterday there was an article posted on the Internet with tips on how professional writers get disciplined to write every day. It was the...

Without a doubt, 2020 has been a curious and sobering year with the broad strokes of the pandemic brushing across the earth. Observing local...

If you are thinking of writing your first book or your fifth book, take a minute to jot down those ideas. But before starting typing the...

A novella is a short novel or a long short story.  Lately we have received quite a few (lots more than usual) submissions of Novellas.   ...

Most of us remember book report writing in grammar school. In addition to the obvious writing exercise, I thought that the real reason for ...

During the last U.S. presidential campaign season there was talk about plagiarism in speeches. I read an article that Dr. Martin Luther Kin...

It's inevitable that the time will come when re-writes are requested. It is a fact of writing life. Your head gets into the story so m...