Sentiment as a Gateway to Character — Oct. 2023
The Bread Machine Editing Trick — July 2023
Desperately Seeking a Writing God — April 2023
Not Writing? Have You Ego-Trapped Yourself — Jan. 2023
Journaling and the Writer (Episode: Man Versus Table Saw) — Oct. 2022
I Hear Sizzling. Where’s the Steak? — July 2022
And the Oscar for Best Reality Show Script Goes to Will Smith April 2022
How My Pup Taught Me a Few Things About Writing — Jan. 2022
Wake-up Call — Oct. 2021
What an Unnatural Book Marketer Learned While Marie-Kondoing Her House — July 2021
A Display Hack for Your Story’s Outline — April 2021
Writing Self-care for When the World is Afire — Jan. 2021
You can’t just threaten us with some singsongy thing” — Oct. 2020
A Plotstorming Technique — July 2020
Turning Points (or How Not to Kill Your Partner During Covid-19) — April 2020
SQUISH! What Cows and Writing Competence Have in Common — Jan. 2020
Avoid a Writing Cat-astrophe — Oct. 2019
The Life-Changing Magic of Zeroing Non-Writing Commitments — July 2019
Wired for Display — Apr. 2019
Take Five: Jan O’Hara and Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures — Feb. 2019
How to Concoct Your Own Antidote to Pre-writing Anxiety — Jan. 2019
Guide to Hacking the Optimal Writing Environment — Jul. 2018
Marketing Copy: The First- Versus Third-Person Debate — Apr. 2018
Take Five: Jan O’Hara and Cold and Hottie — Feb. 2018
“I Yearn” Versus “She Yearned”: Wrestling with Tense and Point of View — Jan. 2018
Lessons Learned from Ruby Dixon: How to Write Sex Scenes that Readers Can’t and Won’t Skip — Oct. 2017
Deprogramming Caution — Apr. 2017
Stuck on a Writing Goal? Use the Past to See the Way Forward — Jan. 2017
Exploit Your Vulnerabilities to Finally Complete Your Book — Nov. 2016
Take Five: Jan O’Hara and Opposite of Frozen — Oct. 2016
The Search for the Ultimate Writing Guru — Apr. 2016
When Your Writing Mountain is My Writing Molehill (and Vice Versa) — Mar. 2016
The Prime Minister, Writing, and an Unethical Psychology Experiment — Jan. 2016
Warning: This Post Contains Sap and We’re Not Talking the Christmas Tree Variety — Dec. 2015
How to Write Through Trout Syndrome and Electric Shocks — Nov. 2015
When Dark Emotions Threaten Your Writing — Oct. 2015
Politics: Infuriating, Inescapable, and a Writer’s Best Friend? — Sept. 2015
Plane Crashes and Writing: Six Sources of Common Ground — Aug. 2015
Bring Out Your Story Scalpels — July 2015
A Call to Pens–Writer as Social Activist — June 2015
Lean Writer, Fat Word Count? Engineering Your Environment for Default Success — May 2015
Confessions of a Serial Non-finisher — Apr. 2015
Navy Commander Rick Campbell Makes Waves by Penning Military Thrillers — Feb. 2015
Should You Set Limits with Your Readers? — Jan. 2015
Minimalism When Writing Fiction — Dec. 2014
Lessons from the UnCon: I Surrender. I’m Finally Ready to Be Naked — Nov. 2014
Deconstructing Micro-Tension — Oct. 2014
Wanted: Grim Reaper as Writing Coach — Sept. 2014
C-c-considering Cadence: Understanding One Quality of Voice — Aug. 2014
Because Size Matters: McKee’s Four Tips on Writing a Big Story — Jun. 2014
All Hail Dilemmas: Why Your Characters Need to Make Tough Choices — May 2014
Cultivate the Gap and Watch Your Readers’ Eyebrows Bounce — Apr. 2014
There Are No Mwuahaha Villains in the Artistic Life — Mar. 2014
Songs on Surviving the Midlist: from Opera Singer, Circus Performer & Novelist, Gretchen McNeil — Feb. 2014
To the Disconsolate Writer Who Hates Her Pace. — Jan. 2014
What’s a Pantster to Do When They’re Stuck? Go Tell It TO the Mountain. — Dec. 2013
4 Science-Based Resources to Build a Drama-Free Writing Routine — Nov. 2013
Never Go Naked to Scrabble: Authorial Words Containing “BIC”—Sept. 2013
This Mystical Thing Called Branding—Aug. 2013
The Cadaver Wore Text (aka the Case for Plot Dissection)—Jun. 2013
Linguistic Quirks: What Wordbirthing & Name-Nicking Can Do for Fiction—May 2013
4 Horseman of the Relationship Apocalypse: Want Them for Members of Your Writing Community?—April 2013
Flying Fingers or Tapping Toes: Art is Art is Art — Feb. 2013
Solving a First-World Blogging Problem (Stop Feeling Like An Author Wishbone III)—Jan. 2013
Tormented by Toothless Writing Goals? Try These Tools (Dec. 2012)
Stop Feeling Like an Author Wishbone: First Do No Harm (Nov. 2012)
Stop Feeling Like an Author-Wishbone at a Table of Industry Experts (Oct. 2012)
Never Go Naked to Scrabble: Authorial Words Containing “WIP” (Sept. 2012)
This Product Prevents Literary Wedgies. Good for Multiple Uses. (Writer’s Emergency Hope Kit, Aug. 2012)
Diagnosis: Storyteller (Jul. 2012)
CORBS: 5 Letters That Can Keep the Drama on the Page and Out of Your Critique Group (Jun. 18, 2012)
31 Authors, 1 Model of a Writers’ Cooperative: Author Tawny Stokes on the Bandit Creek Series (May 21, 2012)
An Open Letter to the Writer Who Just Learned of a Parent’s Illness (Apr. 16, 2012)
Justine Musk on Badassery, Identity, and Writing (Mar. 19, 2012)
How to Restore a Character’s Voice When They Develop Laryngitis (Feb. 20, 2012)
Promopalooza: Tie-Ins, Swag, and Merchandising Opps for the Streetwise Writer (Jan. 2012)
I Prefer My Rubber to Meet the Road (Dec. 2011)
14 Subtle Signs Your OBGYN Might Not Make a Good Critique Partner (Nov. 21, 2011)
INTERVIEW: Keith Cronin — ME AGAIN (Oct. 2011 on Writer Unboxed) Parts I and II
But What about the Quiet Ones? (Sept. 2011)
INTERVIEW: Erin Morgenstern — Parts I (Sept. 2, 2011) and II (Sept. 9, 2011)
High on the Hill Strode the Whining Writer (Aug. 2011)
Home via Procrastination Central (Jul. 2011)
Should the Grass Be Greened? (Jun. 20, 2011)
Giving Good Interview — Role of the Ideal Questioner (Jun. 12, 2011)
Giving Good Interview — Suggestions on How to Be a Dream Interview Subject (Jun. 11, 2011)
INTERVIEW: Nathan Bransford (June 2011) — Parts I (Jun. 3) and II (Jun. 10, 2011)
100,000 Reasons Why You Probably Can’t Banish Envy (and May Not Want to, if You Write) – May 16,2011
7 Query Lessons Learned While Warming School Bleachers with My Butt (Apr. 21, 2011)
Manifesto for a Reforming Statistics Junkie (Mar. 21, 2011)
From Bodkins to Backstabbing: Elizabeth Loupas on Spiking Your Novel with Conflict (Feb. 21, 2011)
Gadzooks! Time for a Game of Crit Eeks! (Jan. 17, 2011)
INTERVIEW: Kim Michele Richardson — Part I (Jan. 7, 2011) and Part II (Jan. 14, 2011)
Q&A: Eleven Ways to Become a Sucker for the Unfamiliar (Dec. 20, 2010)
Take 5 with Cindy Pon and Shveta Thakrar — Writing Across Cultural Lines with Verve and Sensitivity (Nov. 15, 2010)
INTERVIEW: Lisa Brackmann — Part II (Nov. 12, 2010)
INTERVIEW: Lisa Brackmann — Part I (Nov. 5, 2010)
Can We Talk Literary Award Ceremonies?— Oct. 18, 2010
I Avoided Career Self-Sabotage and You Can Too! — Sept. 20, 2010
Beyond the Palm Fronds: Writer Unboxed in Orlando — Aug. 16, 2010
INTERVIEW: MacAllister Stone of Absolute Write – Part II — Aug. 13, 2010
INTERVIEW: MacAllister Stone of Absolute Write – Part I — Aug. 6, 2010
Writing is a People-Growing Machine — Jul. 19, 2010
Peeps Aren’t Only for Easter — Jun. 21, 2010
On the Drawbridge to “Yes” — May 17, 2010
Sink Metaphors, Toast Fairies, and Writing — Apr. 12, 2010