131 Steps to Writing a Novel
After my second book, Pharmacology, a few people have asked what my process was. Got me thinking about everything goes into writing one of these beasts.
After my second book, Pharmacology, a few people have asked what my process was. Got me thinking about everything goes into writing one of these beasts.
Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 10.05.2011
"How did you get published? Do you have an MFA?" a reader asked last week. I struggled for the right answer -- how to tell her that, no, I don't have ...
Karen Dionne | Posted 05.25.2011
Writers have limits when it comes to the amount of violence they'll tolerate in fiction. This is because in order to write a scene, a writer not only has to put themselves inside the action, they have to go deep inside their characters' heads.
Jon Winokur | Posted 05.25.2011
The sixteenth-century French writer Michel de Montaigne, inventor of the modern essay, once remarked that "there are more books upon books than upon a...
Amy Dickinson | Posted 05.25.2011
What I learned during my book tour is that I was dying to have people actually read my book, and if they were going to read it, I was first going to have to sell it to them.
Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 05.25.2011
In my column I wrote how to practice One Less, One More, including simple things like smiling, choosing positive over negative thoughts, no blame, believe in the invisible and miracles, be grateful and forgive.
Christopher Herz | Posted 02.18.2012