Posts tagged with Writing

activating a reader’s imagination by directing their inner eye...

getting a piece “out the door” can be hard when a timeline is bearing down, but it’s totally possible to do so and be happy with the…...

Trust between writer and editor is essential...

some tips and tricks from the eye of the storm...

Our salvation is in the hands of our storytellers....

How a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft....

Advice from a weary editor who is on your side. Ever wonder what an editor is thinking about your story? Usually, just before they start reading, they’re thinking “I hope this is good!” Here’s how to make it good....

Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. For the first time in what felt like a lifetime,...

Something about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider. Something about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider....

With Haiku, a self-nurturing could begin, albeit so close to his own death. Wright offers his perspective, his own loneliness, and his own desire for wholeness within three simple lines of poetry, allowing us to know him intimately at his most vulnerable and his most human....

Learn the art of weaving description and your reader will never leave. It’s better to make the reader do the work than it is to hand them the finished puzzle....

"Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery Love, and compassion - which is really just a particularly important form of love - are concepts within The Little Prince - and we adults would do well to pay attention....