Is your story a hundred unit apartment building? A cottage in the woods? A skyscraper? A hut? A victorian mansion? A pyramid? A tent? A …

How do we abandon the concept of being good, or getting it right? How do we train ourselves to produce stories on command? Those are …

You can write faster than editors read their slush.

Every year, I go to a group of cabins in the mountains on the banks of the Mackenzie River here in Oregon for Ghost Story …

When we craft stories, essays or memoir, the “deeper” elements are the last thing on our minds. At least they should be. Concentrate on getting …

We usually think of Characters and Setting to be separate elements of storytelling. But they are way more linked than they appear! Today we will …

“Whatever traits you want the reader to remember need to be magnified and exaggerated, even if only a little bit.”

“Try to resist the urge to prune a few bushes while the forest burns.”

“I had been neglecting to follow my story’s lead. I’d been so adamant about what I wanted my story to be that I’d ignored the …

“…require that characters deliver their news while climbing three flights of stairs, place a protagonist’s important interview in a too-noisy or sinister location that will …