Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings We writers tend to have our favorite descriptive passages, philosophical asides, and witty dialogue sections in each and every story we write. […]

Like Driving on I-95

“What’s it like to write fiction?” one of my East Coast friends once asked me. “It’s kind of like driving on I-95,” I told him. […]

Affect / Effect

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse us writers. I have found the following to be among them: AFFECT / EFFECT […]

WHO AM I?

No, I’m not Bourne again and this is not a parody of a popular spy novel. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, avid reader, cruising […]