The world is full of possibilities, but unless you push yourself, struggle to drive your story to its limits, you will never make real discoveries. You won’t glean the insights that your story needs to take it from the mundane to the sublime.
The first thing that I seek in a great story is originality. You may not realize it, but the most common problem with stories is
Silk Road Takedown has been a project of Curtis Green, myself, and Diann Thornley Read for the past several months, researching and editing Curtis Green’s personal
Have you ever heard Churchill’s saying, “Perfection is the enemy to progress”? As a writer, I suspect that you know what I mean. Sometimes I
Very often as a reader, I’ll come across a story that is well written in many regards: The characters have strong voices. The setting is
Today at the Writers of the Future workshop, I assigned a dozen new writers to go finish a short story in 24 hours. For some
Most writers kill their own careers. For decades now I’ve studied promising new writers, and sometimes after a writer makes a great debut, a few
For over thirty years now, I’ve been setting writing goals. As a youngster, they were often unrealistic, of course. “I’m going to write forty pages
I knew that the second book in my Serpent Catch series was doomed. There were three indicators. The first was that my publisher had been
When I got my first writing contract from Bantam Books, I had two problems. One was my health. I was still fighting off my chronic
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