Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings We writers tend to have our favorite descriptive passages, philosophical asides, and witty dialogue sections in each and every story we write. […]

Fear Not Your Shadow

I have a new motto: Read endlessly… Write fearlessly… Edit ferociously. But don’t let that word ferociously scare you. Instead, charge fearlessly ahead as you […]

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 […]