You Know You're a Writer When...

There's no end of advice on the web where writing a book is concerned and most of it, I confess, irritates me. Writing is a subjective process. It's personal and no one rule or set of rules fits all. I tend to be rather free-form when it comes to just how I write. Let's face it. If writing were dancing I'd be Martha Graham, not Busby Berkeley...

Introducing a VIP in My Life

Every now and again, if you're fortunate, you meet someone who really touches you. It's almost as if there was a chunk of you missing and they came in and filled the space, perfectly. No gaps, no misalignment, sort of like that feeling you get when you glue something together that's been broken. You wiggle the two parts together until you feel that "click" that tells you it's just right. This is how it felt when I met Gerald Miller...

Bending the Rules of Writing

Like every author I know, either in my personal life or online, I want to improve as a writer in 2014. I won't go so far as to make it a resolution—I know how that goes—but I will at least try to be a bit more confident and disciplined. This has nothing to do with how many words I write every day, or how many projects I complete, though, it has to do with something more internal...