Ghost writing

During National Novel Writing Month, One Novelist Contemplates the Point of Writing Fiction—and How to Pay the Bills While Doing It

A few days ago, Bob Clary, the Marketing Manager at Webucator, asked if I'd be interested in writing a blog post about what keeps

A confession: I have never done meditation, yoga, hypnosis, walking on hot coals or any other practices aimed at unleashing mental powers. I get my

Most of us become novelists because we don't envision moments. We envision worlds. Novelists must fully inhabit those worlds to write about them.

Yesterday, my mother asked what I was working on. “Oh, I finished copy editing that memoir and now I'm writing a marketing brochure,” I said.

One of the most frequent questions I'm asked at book signings or when I teach writing classes is this one: “When do you write?” The