When I was in high school and college, I firmly believed that I would be a Hollywood screenwriter. I read Syd Field and Robert McKee. I...

CD Projekt Red has a great podcast on creating video games; during an episode about quest design, one of the designers talked about the...

I've reached another draft milestone with my current project, which means it's time to find strangers on the internet to critique it. For...

I've written before about my strategy for writing a first draft. That's about as disciplined as I get. In between projects or drafts, I...

As I got back into writing this year, my reading habits also changed. A big part of querying is comp titles, the books that you think...

When I wrote my first two novels, I relied exclusively on word-of-mouth - specifically, my mouth. If I didn't tell someone directly about...

All hobbies cost something. Paints, manuals, spare parts, screws, shoes or gloves, you pay a little to play anything. For my first couple...

When I talk about writing, the most common comment I hear from folks is either "How do you write a novel?!" or "I started a novel but I...

When I finally decided to self-publish my first novel, I had a problem: I had written quite a few words but had no pictures. Common...

I have no intention of posting how to articles, but I googled this phrase many times during my last self-publishing experience before...

I used to think that I would be rich and famous one day. I still hold out hope of being rich. My teenage dream was to tell stories. First...

After I graduated college, I spent a year in southeastern Turkey. Van is a regional capital about equal distance from the borders of Iraq...