Today is the 7th anniversary of The Fabulist - don't worry, I'd forgotten it too until I went poking around for material. On this date in...

(Part 3 in an ongoing series) If you've already tried your hand at writing flash fiction, then you've already learned something important...

Before I continue with the series on flash fiction, there's a side topic I should probably touch on. If you've been following my series, ...

Even with our ongoing cultural obsession with really long books, the literary scene may actually be trending toward very short works. Fla...

Literature has a long history of novels with different characters offering their own points of view. In the English language alone, you h...

I'd like to go into a bit more detail on novel length. The previous post was analysis, this is opinion. I've written several times on ver...

The most popular thing I've ever written was, from a craft standpoint, terrible. This was about seven years ago, at a time in which some ...

One of the most frequently asked questions by authors seeking publications is "How long should my manuscript be?" It's a hot topic for a ...

Dialogue is the best way to understand a character – far better than a verbose, clinical description – but only if it's well used. The se...