Don't Be Chunky - Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs

When I talk about novel structure, I talk a lot about Dwight Swain who wrote  Techniques of the Selling Writer. Swain has some really...

I come from a theater background—a sort of. Basically, I spent a lot of my time singing and dancing and acting (badly) when I...

This week we’re going to give a quick rundown of the pros and cons of present and past tense. For some books, you just...