So there's a lot of writing advice out there.  A lot of it's great.  Some of it stinks.  I've even thrown my two amateur cents i...

I find it odd, this thing called voice.  I read quite a wide variety of authors, both classic and contemporary, and with the good ones, no m...

Words: they say a picture is worth a thousand of them.  Fair enough, but I think sometimes the exact opposite is true.  Sometimes nothing ca...

"You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride. S...

Ok.  So everyone here probably already knows I'm a pretty big Seattle Seahawks fan.  And by "pretty big", I don't mean in ...

*** Warning: the following post contains a lot of gratuitous food porn! *** The other day I was perusing Twitter, trying valiantly not to g...

Back to the obligatory pit of author despair known as Query Hell.  In other words, everything is back to normal. Except for me, it's n...

As of midnight tonight, National Novel Writing Month comes to a close.  For some, it eases out with the pop of a champagne cork, as they ce...

I've been wanting to branch out and do something a little different for a while, and one of those things was to invite another author to...

First of all, there is no 'right' format for a manuscript.  Everyone says something a little different.  No one wants it exactly the...