WRITING

All articles about the art, craft, and business of writing.

2012

Writers Live Double Lives

If Elephants Were Writers

Do The Thing You Love That Sells!

What Do Writers Do?

3 Tips on Developing a Relevant Writing Style

The Importance of Journaling

Short Story: Best Route to Mastery of Fiction

What Will a Writing Career Add to Your Life?

5 Tips on Reading Like a Writer

Your VILLAIN is Someone's HERO

How to Make your Story Compelling

Explosive First Lines of 30 Great Books

6 Steps to a More Interesting Dialogue

Random Writing: Beyond Freewriting

7 Ways Random Writing Can Boost Your Output

Writing Every Day: Steven Barnes

Writing Every Day: Stephen King

Writing Every Day: Ray Bradbury

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing A Story

20 Payoffs of Social Bookmarking

7 Good Reasons Why You Oughta Blog That Idea!

Should Fictional Characters Be Drawn Directly From...

Top Ten Things That Terrorize

2010

In A Place Of Our Own

Off The Edge

Back To Life

Remarkable Adventures

Wordsworth's Criterion

Talent is Part Electricity, Part DIY!

Odd Things

Stories on Easels: Pictures As Ideal Writing Prompts

Put The Fuel On It

Gift of a Man

The 15 Highest-Grossing Books-to-Movies

Press Ctrl-D Now! (Bookmarking)

Breaking Atoms: Thinking Above the Curve

Bad Artists Copy. Good Artists Steal

Twenty Tools for Fiction Writing (Part One)

Twenty Tools for Fiction Writing (Part Two)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Your Story Needs You

License to Steal

Materials of Poetry

Robbing Hardy to Pay King

Life is Art

"Piz, piz" (The Picasso Legacy)

How You Can Write Poetry II

How You Can Write Poetry I

The Purpose of the Imagination

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2009

The Fault is Not in Our Stars

Writer's Role

Beyond The Word

Fear is a Writer's Toy

Write Everyday