WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone... Tough economic times impacts our local libraries, too, and because we’re in tough times, the demand on libraries is increasingly high. If you...

Too often writers will pad the manuscript.  Add a sentence to each paragraph, or substitute filler that doesn’t bring anything to the story. It’s not the best course of action to...

Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Ayers of Author Magazine on writing.  An audio of that chat is on its website and the current issue of the magazine. The focus...

On August 1st from 7 - 9 PM, I’ll be doing a two-hour radio program on MPR  at blogtalkradio.com on writing with host, Paul Ohlsen and fellow writers, Heather Graham and  Hope...