A Promise Made

A promise “to love and cherish” is one often made at weddings as the bride and groom gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes, no doubt […]

Good Bones

Just as your body needs a skeleton to give it structure, your novel needs a framework for its story. If you start with a solid, […]

The Research Iceberg

Despite the literary license we fiction writers supposedly hold, readers expect a certain amount of realism and accuracy in stories that are based on the […]

Art or Elephant Ears?

Have you ever written a chapter, scene, or page of dialogue or description that you thought was truly excellent then reviewed it the next day […]

Know Your Destination

London, Sydney, or Tokyo? As we stood by this directional sign on a small island in the middle of the South Pacific, my husband and […]

Your Heart Knows

I must be a born rebel. When it comes to fiction-writing rules, I just can’t seem to help but break them—at least some of them, […]

A Promise Made

A promise “to love and cherish” is one often made at weddings as the bride and groom gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes, no doubt […]

The Research Iceberg

Despite the literary license we fiction writers supposedly hold, readers expect a certain amount of realism and accuracy in stories that are based on the […]

Art or Elephant Ears?

Have you ever written a chapter, scene, or page of dialogue or description that you thought was truly excellent then reviewed it the next day […]

Your Heart Knows

I must be a born rebel. When it comes to fiction-writing rules, I just can’t seem to help but break them—at least some of them, […]