Everything creative is plagued by cliche. Writers are told over and over again not to use cliched phrases, cliched plots, cliched characters...

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...

I've spent the last week thinking of another short story to write. I've thrown out a lot of ideas as boring or predictable. The prob...

Pre-HS The first thing I remember writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. I don't remember what it was about, but I know I drew pic...

With Air Pirates in the hands of the betas, I'm thinking a lot about what to work on next. I've been putting off the decision by wr...

When people ask me how my book's going, and I start telling them about the query process and the publishing industry and how getting pub...

Last time I talked about what to do when faced with meanie heads online. But why are they so mean? Interestingly, if you ask them, most peo...