writing

Modern society is so obsessed with perfection, that we find it difficult to forgive mistakes. I'm not talking about crimes here. I'm talking about honest to goodness mistakes. Leaving the...

I’ve been having a “fun” day writing up character stats for both my home game and for a recent Shadowrun project. Recent discussions on the official SR4 forums have led...

Yesterday I tweeted a "dirty little secret" that writing was a collaborative process between authors, editors, and sometimes agents. This is true. But what is even more true is the...

NOTE: This article comes from a writer's perspective. I have never edited an anthology so cannot speak to the difficulties or experiences from that side of the work. Since 2004,...

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is a "contest" that starts annually on November 1st and goes through November 30th. The goal of the contest is write a 50,000 word novel...

My Twitter handle is WannaBeWriter06. I get asked about it often enough that I thought I'd write a post about it. After all, I am a published writer, I'm a...

Yesterday, I discussed the basics of world building (here). Now I’d like to add a few things not usually discussed in college fiction courses. As you are creating your world,...

An important part of writing a story is world building. Whether you are writing a short story, a novel, or anything in between, your world has to stand the test...

As Teresa Nielsen-Hayden reminded me the other day, I received a Certificate of Permission to Write Badly at Viable Paradise. What this means is that I can write horrid first...

Last week, I wrote a 2 part blog post on the process of writing characters (which you can find here and here). I did not plan on posting a part...