It’s all too easy for authors to risk confusing readers by showing the effect of an action, before showing the cause itself.

First-time novelists often make the mistake of believing their first novels will be the most difficult writing of their lives.

Aside from writing itself, reading is the single most important element in a healthy writing life.

One morning you boot up your computer, glance through the manuscript file, and realize “This stinks!” Now what do you do?

Using “there” at the beginning of sentences and phrases is the lazy way out.

Ten writing resolutions that you can fulfill this year.

Ever since Edward Bulwer-Lytton slapped readers with his infamous “dark and stormy night” line, writers everywhere have been leery of misusing weather in their stories.

One of the most common bits of telling I run across is also one of the easiest to overlook.

Like vine-ripened tomatoes, stories require the slow nourishment of sunlight and warm imaginative soil to grow into rosy, juicy maturity.