Let's start with the obvious: if you've ever written a sex scene you never want your parents to read, then you understand the title of...

Lately I've been talking a lot about my small town and the community here. What I'm going to talk about now is the community we form...

As any writer will tell you, the first line/sentence/paragraph of your book needs to hit the reader just right. If that first little...

In a previous post, I mentioned that I am usually working on several things at once. All based upon mood or a scene that suddenly pops...

Writers are very subjective beings. If you find one that isn't, I'll be shocked. A lot of our ideas can come to us from anything we...

As a member of the literary community, I'm going to assume you've heard the phrase 'feminine rage' at least once. If not, let me break it...

I have a friend (Hi Tara!) ask me recently about writing character descriptions. Specifically: How do you describe people without it...

I swear I'm not trying to write whole essays with these things. I know there have been some long-winded ones in the past couple of weeks,...

A number of trends I've noticed in bestsellers over the past decade ... or two.

In the year 2024, I heard the term 'romantasy' for the first time, and I personally love it. As someone that picked up (and kept with)...