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“But you don’t have to be a David Bowie fan to appreciate the power of the setting.” Last fall, I instructed a course at my local...

“The end of book one is the most crucial place in the entire series; it’s the catalyst for everything else to begin.” When I wrote my...

“Master the craft of writing your fictional friends well and your story will jump from the page.” Which came first, the chicken or the...

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings .” – William...

“Any element in the prologue that advances the story should be written in the story itself.” The most edited page of an entire...

“ There are no other words for it. I was, quite simply, suffering from writer’s block. ” I cannot pretend that there are not already a...

Originally appeared on the Burning Soul Press Blog 4.4.22 Everyone thinks they can write a book. How hard can it be, right? You sit...

“If you want to be an author. Be an author.” “You’re not human, right?” “Do you sleep?” “How do you find the time?” “But don’t you...