A writer friend recently told me he’d found his voice. In the way he said it—eyes wide and hands gesturing with a manic energy—it was...

In previous posts, I detailed how I wrote my first book, got conned by a pretend agent, and self-published The Road Cain Walks  out of...

Writing a novel is a balance of art and craft. The first draft sets your right-brained creativity loose on the page to create worlds out...

Your second draft will feel different from the first. Instead of a blank page, you’ll have an entire story to elevate to its next level....

For me, and I believe many authors, the most difficult and important lesson about writing is how to revise. When I first started, I...

I’ve written a book no one’s read.   No, I don’t mean The Road Cain Walks  ( almost no one has read that) but the book that came next....

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but a better side effect is its ability to pull you out of your head to see things with fresh eyes....

In his book Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts, Matt Bell refers to the first draft as the “exploratory...

Writing a book is like preparing a meal, if you had to plant the seeds for every ingredient and nurture them to grow. Lucky for all of...

My first substantial book idea came in the summer of 1999 while I was working at an ice cream shop in the North Carolina mountains. I’d...

Ah, yes. The obligatory author blog. We do this for the chance of getting an audience before we’ve earned one and just possibly catching...