We spend too much enough on negative talk, I think. There's a tendency to focus on failure over success, on the worst over the best, on...

No one wants to steal your book. No one wants to steal your book. No one wants to steal your book. Well, that was simple. Or were you...

Pressed for time? Listen to the post instead! A few weeks ago, I made a video covering some of the common scams plaguing publishing right...

Story length is an important factor for anyone writing for short fiction markets, which often have specific word count requirements. So...

Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for August. This was a light month. I submitted just 17...

We've done character voice and we've done science fiction, so now it's time for the fantasy writing prompts. But since so many people are...

Pressed for time? Listen to the post instead! Aspiring writers can get tunnel vision. People get so focused on getting a novel published...

Somehow, even though I'm from Kansas, I hadn't heard about this until about an hour ago. To recap the story for those of you who, like...

I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of writing prompts. Better to find your own ideas and then get help developing them into...

Here are the collected novel writing posts as of November 10th, 2020. This post may be updated if new posts are added. How to Start and...

Back in the day, I posted stories that I couldn't sell to my blog, inviting readers to judge for themselves if they are truly as bad as...

Dialogue is one of the hardest, most important, most rewarding aspects of long-form writing. Whereas many editors of short fiction...

An epistolary novel is a work framed as a series of documents, conventionally an exchange of letters or a diary. These days, the...

Yes, I know - I'm the guy who's been telling you that worldbuilding doesn't matter, that you shouldn't sweat out all these insignificant...

While I've written quite a bit about dialogue tags, the truth is that I don't care about tags per se as much as I do about a greater...