Why You Need an Editor (Even if You Think You Don’t)

Why You Need an Editor (Even if You Think You Don’t)

Whatever you think, you need an editor. There comes a time in every writer’s life when the plot is adequately twisted, the characters are adequately developed, and all the typos have been eliminated with a laser gun. You think. Actually, you’re not sure if any of that...
The Novel: How to Craft a Work of Art

The Novel: How to Craft a Work of Art

If you want to see a room full of writers go ballistic, right up there with a lynch mob on the hysteria scale, tell them there really is a formula for writing a novel.  A list of elements and criteria that define the nature of the work. They probably already know that...