Finding an editor for your work can be really hard. "How do I know whom to trust? What if they don't understand my work and what I...

The fine folks at Broken Eye are working on the last edits for Izanami's Choice. Next steps after that are me addressing the edits and ...

As part of the Kickstarter campaign for Torment, we offered a series of give novellas called From the Depths . The novella I wrote (the Go...

A lot of you know I'm a multiclassed programmer/writer. Before I drafted four novels and got an agent , I had a Computer Science degree...

Thank you for indulging my forced vacation last week. I actually didn't mean to time it with Thanksgiving (I often forget about American...

You've heard of this Lucky 7 Meme? I've been tagged for this thing so many times, I actually got tired of not posting it. So lucky y...

If you don't remember, I suck at description . But that means I learn obvious lessons all the time and can pass the savings on to you! ...

The hook is what you say when your friends ask, "So what's your book about?" It's how you tweet about your book. It is th...

Flashbacks are hard. Why? Because they're about the past and are, therefore, backstory infodump . On top of that, they're really eas...

Last time , I tried to trick my inner editor by writing notes to myself, rather than the "real draft", in the hopes that he wouldn...

It's here! "Pawn's Gambit" has officially been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies . ( Read it here . Do it! DO IT NOW !)...

Sometimes when I'm drafting, I have to do a quick outline or write other notes to myself to figure out what happens next. I guess I coul...

First off, a HUGE thanks to agented author and writer of ninja fiction (among other things) Natalie Whipple for the revamped blog header yo...

Cindy and Anica are home now, which is totally awesome. It also means I'm alternately busier than ever and totally bored/napping (much ...

My amazing wife gives me two hours of dedicated writing time most days. One would think I could produce novels like some kind of ninja cybor...

The title is a vacuously true way of saying that you asked no questions. Therefore I have no answers and am forced -- forced! -- to come up...

I'm more than halfway done with the 2nd Edit, and most of the major rewrites are finished. So now I'm mostly skimming through the re...

This free-writing exercise was found in a high school journal, dated March 1994. Edited for spelling and punctuation: Once upon a time, in a...

I've been doing some critiquing lately. I think I've critiqued about 8 short stories/novel chapters since I joined, and at least ha...

A random writing sample from highschool. We were grouped in pairs and each given the same opening sentence. The assignment was to write a sh...