Writing Scenes I Know Will Never Make the Final Story (And Why I’m Doing It Anyway) Last week I spent two hours writing a conversation between my protagonist and her dead grandmother. It takes place in… Read more
The First Draft I Was Afraid to Re-Read and What It Taught Me About Fear in Writing There’s a document on my computer I haven’t opened in eight months. I know exactly where it is. I could… Read more
I Tried Writing Without a Plot for 30 Days and Here’s What Actually Happened So there I was, stuck again. Just completely stuck. You know that feeling where you’ve got your document open, maybe… Read more
