This past weekend I re-read a great quote by Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art — a must read for writers who want gems of inspiration as well as a kick in the pants:
“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a [...]

I’m a really big fan of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s books. I was a total fan geek when she responded to my email and sent me an autographed bookplate.

I just finished reading the last book in her trilogy, This World We Live In.

I’ve already talked about the first two books, Life as We Knew It [...]

For those of you who read this blog, you already know how much I love to talk about the writing craft. Yes, I’m a nerd that way.
Since the day job is still a shade of crazy (I have ONE more week left until this software release), I figured I would share with you a blog [...]

Breaking up in any relationship is hard to do. A writer breaking up with an agent is definitely difficult.

Recently, I parted ways with my agent. At first I thought I wouldn’t talk about it but now that some time has passed, I figured a blog post might help other writers who may be in a [...]

So for this revision round, I have sixteen scenes left — where everything starts to converge together and pushing toward the end — which in the draft form is still cloudy (but that’s for another post).
One thing I’ve been noticing with my characters — the antagonist Kendra is just really all shades of bad, which [...]