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Let me be honest. I want to win a Nebula. I want to win a Hugo. I want to win an ENnie. I would love to call myself an award-winning...

Over the years, I've learned a lot about writing (the craft) from other authors, and simply by doing it. But writing is the only part of the job that an...

Note: I usually don't subscribe to this conceit, but for the purposes of this post, let's use these definitions for writers and authors. (Usually I use the terms authors and...

In the publishing industry, time is money. This is true for editors, agents, and writers. Especially authors who have no day job and write full time. Every moment they are...

Over the past few years, I have heard many a war story from other professional writers about their interactions with the non-writing and the want-to-be-writing crowds. They get asked everything...

It’s amazing the things we take for granted when trying to hold a conversation. Today, I’m walking down the hallway at work and someone says, "You look nice today." There...

It’s that day, the last day of Gencon. The Dealer’s Room has closed, the last of the games are wrapping up, and lots of nerds are congregating at the Indy...

I hate characters who victimize themselves. Sometimes in a good way, assuming the character was well written. But I’ve run into more than one character that serves as the voice...

Some people believe that a character who talks to herself would be perceived as crazy (never mind that actors talk to themselves all the time). I’ve been told that at...

Words make sentences. Sentences make paragraphs. Paragraphs make stories. Everything you write is a story, from the business letter to your colleague to the essay for your English Lit class...