The Writer's Workout

Imagine this. You have just finished working on your latest story and you are desperately needing some well thought out, constructive...

Creating a new character can be one of the best parts of the writing process. You get to build a whole new person (or animal or inanimate...

Grammar. Spelling. Structure. All these are important, but a grasp on grammar alone won’t make your book a bestseller. Writing a good...

Many writers are wary of receiving feedback. I know I was, as a fourteen-year-old who had just finished my first story. It was a thinly...

My grandmother was the most creative person I have ever known. She could paint, draw, do just about anything crafty, beat me mercilessly...

The Writer’s Games, originally the NaNoGames, started out as a fun Facebook competition for writers to challenge themselves, make a few...

The Games showed me that I could do something I never would have thought possible; write a complete story and edit it within 72 hours. It...