“How to tell if your book is a success” is an important question for any writer to consider, if only because feelings of “impostor syndrome” tend to dog most us, no matter how much or little we’ve achieved on a quantifiable scale. We all write for our own reasons, but most of those reasons boil […]
December 12, 2010 by 43 Comments Writing Life8 Reasons to Let Your Stories Ripen
Whenever you come up with a wonderful new story idea, it can be tempting to immediately sit down at the keyboard and start bringing it to life on the page. But that’s not always the best way to turn that sparkling new idea into a worthwhile and enduring story. In his book How to Write […]
April 26, 2009 by 32 Comments Writing LifeThe Value of Stories That Fail
Good writers aren’t born. Okay, well, actually, they are born, since it would be physically impossible to write without being born… but they’re aren’t born good. At least, I’ve yet to meet a four-year-old wunderkind who’s running around writing Pulitzer Prize-winning epics. I know I sure wasn’t. Instead, good writers are made. Skill isn’t a […]
