Keep Your Novel Out of the Dreaded DNF—Did Not Finish—Book Club | Jane Friedman
Photo by George Milton Today’s post is by author Amy L. Bernstein. Admit it. You love to…
Rented Horrors
Illustration by Na Kim. I was a fairly unsupervised child, living like a rat on the…
Scene Structure and Transitions in Big Scenes
Hello and welcome! Today’s question is from Grace Clay who asks: I would like more advice…
The Measure of Intensities: On Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans, Polarisation—Based on a data visualization by Mauro Martino (2021). Graphing is the practice of…
The Missing Link in Memoir Character Development | Jane Friedman
Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer and editor Lisa Cooper Ellison. Join…
The People Who Fight at Dinner Parties
Oskar Schlemmer, Dinner Party, 1935. Public domain. I think most people like to walk away from…
What to Ask Your Beta Readers | Jane Friedman
Photo by Yi Liu on Unsplash Today’s post is by Andrew Noakes, founder of The Niche…
Those That Are Fools: At Clownchella
Photograph by Sarah Shtern. “Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are…
How Symbols Can Support Your Writing Life | Jane Friedman
Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Breathe. Write. Breathe.: 18 Energizing Practices…
Pokémon Is All About Reading
Image by Sara Goetter. The game is played with great feeling. Pikachu, perhaps the most successful…
What Do We Really Mean When We Say “Show, Don’t Tell”? | Jane Friedman
Today’s post is by author and book coach Janet S Fox. Let me just start with: I…
Consider This Before Killing a Character
[From KMW: I’m taking a quick sabbatical this week. I’ll be back next Monday with a…
Interrupted, Again
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Work Interrupted (1891). I’m fascinated by interruptions. Things are running along one way, one…
Chasing It Down the Elevator Shaft to the Subconscious: Or, Getting Hypnotized
Flashes of light pulsing through the nebula surrounding the protostellar object LRLL 54361. Image from NASA‘s…
Undisputed: Fury vs. Usyk
At about 1 A.M. local time in Riyadh, on a Saturday in late May, Tyson Fury…
How Naming a Character Is Like Naming a Child | Jane Friedman
Today’s post is by author Ginny Kubitz Moyer. Over the course of my life, I have chosen…
I Cannot
Licensed under CCO 4.0, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Last year, a formal tone that sounded nothing…
When Writing Gets Hard: 3 Hidden Causes of Writer’s Block | Jane Friedman
Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas (@manzanitafire), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. One newspaperman,…