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How To Title Your Story – Or Not

How to write book and story titles that [...]

Writing the Basics. Sentence Structure, Paragraph Structure and Why they Matter

My subject this week is paragraph and sentence structure. I know, you suddenly have visions of your 5th grade teacher, who looked a lot like Marge Simpson but without the cool style and hip clothes. The smell of chalk or water-based-board markers (pick your toxins: one has particulates that get in your lungs, one kills [...]

And Now For Something Completely Different

I was supposed to write an essay for the MW blog for today, but something strange happened. I found myself thinking back on things others have said recently, and things I’ve said recently, and for some reason every time I sat down at my computer to write an essay (mainly Friday), this story insisted on [...]

Planning -- I Was A Teenage Pantser

I was writing a different post for today, but this week’s discussion about advice to young writers got me thinking . . .

Jimi Hendrix.  Eric Clapton.  Eddie Van Halen.  Stevie Ray Vaughan.  All are famous rock guitar legends.  And though they may not have started out knowing, they eventually learned how to read and understand [...]

Writing -- Scope

A week or so ago, I had the joyous experience of finishing the rough draft on my latest novel.  And while it sits quietly resting for a few weeks, I’ve turned my attention to several short stories that I’ve agreed to write for various anthologies.  Looking at the creation process has brought to mind the [...]

The Importance of Wanting in Fiction

There’s really not much news to report right now about the MW How-To book or the anthology, and since I don’t know how much interest there is in the behind the scenes workings of a business magazine (which is where I spent most of my time this week), I’m going to talk instead about something [...]