Now that you have the basic tools to edit your work, it's time to talk about them. After all, what use is a toolbox if you don't know how...

As a quick recap, I'm posting a series on editing. In this series I am using a house as metaphoric language in describing the stages of...

As a quick recap, I'm posting a series on editing. In this series I am using a house as metaphoric language in describing the stages of...

Last time, I introduced this short series on editing stages. I talked about how editing is like building a house: you start with the...

So you've finished your book, and there it is, written out or typed up in its full glory. Tears of joy and agony, sweat, dreams, and...

When it comes to writing humor in my fiction, I usually resort to a few things: forced humor, irony, sarcasm, and using characters. To...

Writers are creators. We belong to the other world that calls to us, that seems to create itself. We "take people, put them on a journey,...

Your book is finally ready to be exposed to the world. You send it to several people, beta readers, and anticipate their response. "The...

We've all been there. "I want to write, but... I'll do it later." Then we never do. What's the problem? We're looking forward to...

When I first come up with a book, I put all the necessary research in my mind to remember later. I prefer to focus on the meat of the...

vs. Hi, wordrights! Okay, we're going into a controversial topic here! But it's a topic I think is important. I've always thought a pen...

Hi, wordrights! Some people might be daunted by brainstorming. They think it's something complex, like coming up with a whole plot line...