Writing Advice
Articles
- “Time Travel for Writers”
- The art of creating believable historical characters. (Novel Writing, October, 2003)
- “Decoding Narrative Distance”
- An advanced look at point of view.(Writing Fiction, Winter, 2002)
- “Critique Me Kindly”
- How to work with a critique group. (Writer's Digest, May, 2002)
- “Query Letters: Getting Over the Transom”
- How to write an effective query letter. (Writer's Digest, April, 2002)
- “Purple Prose, and What to Do Until the Doctor Arrives”
- Enriching your style without alienating readers. (Writing Fiction, Summer, 2003)
- “The Fifty-Page Dash”
- Drawing your readers into your story from the beginning. (Writer's Digest, February, 1999. Anthologized in The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, Writer's Digest Books, 2002)
- “Playing it Straight with Plot Twists”
- (Writer's Digest, July, 1998.)
- “Give Life”
- Bringing texture to your fictional world. (Writer's Digest, September, 1994)
Interviews
- Interview with Writer Unboxed
- which gives a sense of how I approach the editing process, and some friendly advice.