The Secret of writing kidlit – America’s master storyteller speaks

Forty or so years ago, Jean Shepard spake the secret — but not everyone has heard yet.
Jean Shepard is best known for narrating A Christmas Story which was based on his own tales of growing up. He was a radio storyteller who would just start talking and wander off-topic and around his elbow and maybe have [...]

Writing backwards…

Let’s not call this advice, since I don’t know how it will turn out yet, but so far this has gotten us unstuck and ready to roll on our Sci Fi MS.
Paul Dellinger and I were about halfway through our story and we had an ending in mind, but nobody could figure out what to [...]

Heartstopper: MS Lost! Regained!

I opened up the new MS which i have really been cooking on and … it was empty. I tried to scroll to the text but the text just wasn’t there!
I hadn’t touched the file in almost a week because of Halloween activities and such, but when I hit undo all the text came back. [...]

Don’t work too hard – writing advice

I haven’t offered writing advice in a long time, possibly because I’m personally floundering in that area.
Here, then, is advice from Anthony Trollope to George Eliot regarding the book “Romola.”
 From wikipedia: The attention to detail exhibited in the novel was a focus of both praise and criticism. Anthony Trollope, having read the first instalment of Romola, expressed [...]