Your Closeness to Your Story: Seven Steps to Building a Successful Work of Fiction
Most successful works of fiction go through a number of stages before being fully completed. Sometimes these stages are progressed...
Are Writers Telepathic?
Imagine a world in which human beings communicated solely by telepathy, transferring thoughts directly from one person to another. Would...
How Does Flash Fiction (or Any Fiction) Actually Work?
What’s the difference between a story and the simple relation of an incident? I ask because I get to read quite a lot of ‘flash fiction’...
An Editor's True Starting Point
A writer’s tendency is to look for things wrong in his or her writing. And many editors take this approach too: they are always trying...
The Art of Listening
One evening, many years ago, I was in a room listening to someone describe an event in their lives. This person was a known compulsive...
Making the Most of Social Isolation
The practice of writing at its best can be full of enthusiasm for life. When writers are at the top of their game, they want to play at...
How to Write a Business Plan for a Writing Career
Being a writer who wants to achieve viability and a long-term career means you are a ‘business’, defined as ‘the activity of making one's...