Edgar Allen Poe: Exploring His Themes Edgar Allen Poe was a master of the macabre, beloved for his gothic tales of terror and morbid...

Recently, I talked about the different styles of POV (point of view) a writer can choose when telling their story. The right voice can...

Truman Capote was an American novelist and short story writer known for his distinctive writing style and his contributions to the...

To write every day, or not—that seems to be the question most "writers" ask. The answer to one of the most asked questions in the...

It's been a bit since I posted a new blog, but things have been anything but uneventful over here! Let's catch up. Shall we? Last year,...

"Have You Eaten Grandma?" by Gyles Brandreth HYEG is a grammar and usage book that's an awful lot of fun to read. It's not very often...

"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer Benjamin Dreyer is the executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, which makes his...

Art isn't easy, but is it one part inspiration and ninety-nine parts perspiration, or the other way around? How would you define...

2019 is now less than four hours away — if you're on the East Coast in the US, like me! Let's put the setbacks and failures of 2018...

Or, How I Wrote My First Novel Without Losing My Sanity!* (most of my sanity) This year, over the course of four arduous months, I wrote...

"Story Trumps Structure" by Steven James If November's writing book of the month was a gift for the plotters out there, then December's...

The work is hard. Let's be honest — it's really hard. How many times have you sat down and toiled away on several pages only to throw...

Aside from "writer's block," the most cited cause for not writing among writers is... drum roll, please... "I just don't have time to...

"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel" by Jessica Brody I will always have a soft-spot for Save the Cat! and the late Blake Snyder. For the...

"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King Let me preface this review by saying I love Stephen King. Like so many others, he is...

I completed the second draft of my debut novel "The Belles of St. Mary's" over the weekend. What a rush! Three-hundred and forty-seven...

Once a month I will recommend a book about the craft of writing. For me, books about writing always inspire me to write and my hope is...

I'm going to say something very controversial if you're a writer—there's no such thing as writer's block. There. I said it. And I'll say...