The holidays are here again. Cue the gift-giving anxiety! I can't tell you what you should buy for everyone on your list — mea culpa — but I can offer up these 15 holiday gifts for your writer friends. Whether you know an aspiring novelist or someone just nominated for a major award, this guide … Continue reading 15 Holiday Gifts for Your Writer Friends
When you've been writing for long enough, or once you've read enough how-to books for writers, you start to notice just how similar all the "different" advice you're getting sounds. In Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative, veteran writer Chuck Wendig has crafted an irreverent guide to the one thing every … Continue reading Damn Fine Story: A Review
"Lesbian necromancers in space." It's one hell of a tagline, and it's exactly what it sounds like. The space-faring fantasy debut from Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth is a tale of intrigue, murder, greasepaint, and ... well ... Gideon. The premise in this trilogy-starter is far from simple. Eponymous heroine Gideon Nav is a foundling, … Continue reading Gideon the Ninth: A Review
So you want to write a novel — now what? Well, unless you plan to pull 100,000-plus words from where the sun don't shine, you're going to want to do a bit of plotting before you begin. It's ultimately up to you to decide how to plot your novel, but I've picked out five methods … Continue reading How to Plot Your Novel: 5 Ways to Write Your Bestseller
Every October, I get a little bit jealous of my artist friends, who bust out their Inktober lists for 31 days of nonstop creative productivity. Instead of trying to get back to my artistic roots this year, I decided to publish an #InktoberWriting Challenge, for writers interested in making the month of October all about … Continue reading The 2019 #InktoberWriting Challenge