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    • Jan 25, 2016
    • 3 min

    How to Get Your Novel Off on the WRONG Foot

    The good news for writers is that Amazon Kindle and similar platforms allow them to get their books directly to readers. No longer does a...

    • Dec 20, 2015
    • 3 min

    9 Favorite Holiday Movies and Specials and How They Made Me a Better Writer

    One of the things I love about the month of December is the chance to see some of my favorite Christmas movies and specials. These are ...

    • Mar 18, 2015
    • 3 min

    Where Do Characters Come From?

    Nonfiction and editing are my bread and butter. They help pay rent on the apartment and keep the car insured. But I have been spending...

    • Oct 30, 2012
    • 3 min

    10 Reasons Why I LOVE NaNoWriMo

    In case you've been living in a cave with no connection to the outside world, November is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to ...

    • May 7, 2012
    • 3 min

    10 Resources to Help Fiction Writers with Character Names

    Naming your characters can be almost as hard as naming your kids–or so I've been told. I don't have kids. What I do have is experience...

    • Apr 9, 2012
    • 3 min

    5 Things Stephen King’s “Misery” Taught Me about Writing

    Stephen King's book On Writing has helped a generation of writers find ways to express their ideas. I loved it, and it's always one of...

    • Mar 15, 2011
    • 2 min

    Making Time for Your Own Projects

    I'm looking sadly at my Word folder labeled "Short Stories." Although fiction has always been my first love, I haven't touched that...

    • Feb 24, 2011
    • 2 min

    Honest But Kind

    One of the very first clients who hired me to edit her novel-length manuscript sent me an email before she forwarded her prose to me. "Be...

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