The Worlds - lite

Cue the celestial choir! I've located the ultimate spiral notebook -- and of course it's made by Clairefontaine. They call these L...

Time to talk chairs. Seems mundane, I know, but it matters. You can't write long in a bad chair. "Oh, poo! Don't bore me wit...

I love ink, fountain pens and color. Luckily, I get to use all three in my work. That's my doodling notebook on the left. At night, I w...

Okay, so maybe this is a tool for writers who live alone. But since that describes me, I have to list a timer among my most es...

I'm almost done with the edit of my first book, The Worlds . Thanksgiving took a big chunk out of my work schedule but I'm back on ...

One skill every fiction writer needs is the ability to name characters. The right name can bring a character to life. It should sound fres...

How many great ideas occurred to people as they were falling asleep and were lost forever when they couldn't recall them in the morning?...

I keep five notebooks for recording story ideas. Could I write all my ideas in one book? Yes, but I work on several books at once so that wo...

I need to see a scene clearly in my head -- or at least see the beginning clearly -- before I can write it. If I can see it in my mind...

This is an image from Scrivener 2.0, the best writing software in the world. (Note: photo removed from this low-bandwidth version of the blo...

I thought I'd start with an image today.  This is where it all begins (well, after it finds a way into my mind). Note: photo removed fro...