- Oct 21, 2019
- 3 min
Writing Tips: How to Hurtle Your Writer's Block
Here's the text of an article Janice Hardy was kind enough to let me post on her excellent Fiction University site. I’ve never really had...
- Nov 23, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: Writing the Blockbuster Novel, by Albert Zuckerman
Like most books about writing, Albert Zuckerman’s Writing the Blockbuster Novel doesn’t say much you haven’t read elsewhere. But some of...
- Feb 19, 2017
- 2 min
Book Review: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life is more an example of good writing than a manual for how to produce it....
- Oct 17, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder
It’s tempting to say the best thing about Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! is the title. (And the cover—don’t let go, kitty! HOLD ON!) But...