Just Tell Me Everything Whether you’re doing your first interview to get more info for a memoir or your 100th to add to an article, interviews can be tricky,…
Why Do Books Fail? As a professor at the University of California, Riverside, one day my normally upbeat writing students turned on me. It wasn’t pretty. Then it got…
The Name of the Game is a Name Try to say that title three times. I tried and messed up. Which really is the point of this blog, in my opinion at least.…
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How to Make It as a Writer Writing is hard work. Did you just say, “Well, duh”? Yet, it’s a skill and the more we write, the easier it becomes. Actually, the…