My hand-crafted echo chambers are full of mourning and outrage (with a sprinkling of praises and celebration). Reading through it is hard an...

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook then you may have noticed that I took the last two weeks off from social media. So there were a...

I know some of you want to hear what my time at PAX was like. I intend to write that post, but you'll have to wait a little longer. I h...

Hey, all! If you're going to PAX Prime next month, I'll be on a panel there. The panel is "CLASSIC RPGs FOREVER!" (yes,...

Trevor asks a very pertinent question: How do you have time for everything?   Seriously, I see that you have 10 kids, work remotely on ...

[Some of the links below go to TV Tropes . You have been warned.] These days, there is no end of people who say, "Why are you still p...

Sometimes characters have to die. Because facing death makes people do crazy, vengeful, courageous things, and when we need our characters...

You know that moment in Mockingjay when they finally rescue Peeta, and Katniss spends a paragraph or so thinking how happy she and Peeta wou...

To me, writing a novel -- trying to make a dozen characters and themes and motivations and goals all fit together in one comprehensible mass...

There's a lot of waiting coming up in the next few months, in which I have to just hope that Air Pirates is good enough. In which I have...

(I've been using my temporary insanity tag a lot lately. That's what querying will do to you, I guess.) So here are statistics on ...

You've all read everything leading up to this post, right? Cuz if you think querying is all excitement and roses, you should go back and...

I don't know about you, but when I read these stories, I'm always more interested in how long and difficult the journey was (it enco...

If you're not sure what genre your novel is, read this post by agent Jennifer Laughran . It's a fantastic breakdown of the (current)...

TV Tropes is a fantastic site, collecting every story trope humanity has ever done, along with examples. If you've got a spare month or...

The Kitchen-Sink Story: A story overwhelmed by the inclusion of any and every new idea that occurs to the author in the process of writing i...

Everyone's got their quirks. Some people have to collect the same edition of a book (mass market, trade, or hard) for the entire series....

I read a lot of Dr. Seuss (9 kids will do that to you), to the point where I've caught myself thinking about the story behind the story,...

I have a problem with a fear of failure. I guess most people do a little, but I feel like mine affects everything I do. I mean, I'm even...

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