A reader walks into a bookstore. Spies an interesting book. What does she do? Picks it up. Flips to the first chapter before anything else. At least, that’s what I do.
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Self-care for writers: some tips from bestsellers author!
Back when I was in elementary school, we used to do that thing on Valentine’s Day where you wrote little crummy cardboardy valentines (often from Your …
Begin reading Terry Roberts' critically new novel
Gramercy Park, smiling at the sudden softening of city noise. In the past five years, as automobile and truck traffic replaced the rhythmic clip-clop of hooves and …
100 Random Storytelling Thoughts And Tips, Starting Now
0: none of this is true unless you find it to be true. 1. If you’re bored, we’re bored. 2. Characters at every level of the story want something — love, revenge, cake, whatever — and when we meet them we’d better soon know what that thing is. Especially if it’s cake. We can all…
An Expedition Into The Dark, Tumultuous Heart Of Authorial Self-hatred
You’re sitting there. You’re writing. It’s going good. Or just okay. Or whatever. Your fingers are moving, your brain is barfing up ideas, and sentence by sentence, this story comes to life. And then: this radar ping, where you unconsciously send out a signal to test your self-worth as a writer to ask the innocuous…
25 Steps To Being A Traditionally Published Author: Lazy Bastard Edition
So, here’s the deal — August for me is, as the kids say, “supa-cray-cray.” I’m working on like, 17 novels and two scripts or something like that. As such, I have put out various tendrils and pea shoots and solicited the aid of various Friends of Terribleminds (TM) to drop in throughout the month and…