How to Get the Muse to Visit
Don’t go on the Internet, even if it’s to jog your memory or to fact-check something you or the Muse has said. You can fact-check later with the Editor. That’s the kind of thing editors like to do.
Our Work and Why We Do It
For writers, real success is the days and weeks and months and years of satisfying, engaging work it takes to produce the book, no matter what happens to it afterward.
How to Live the Writing Life
Talk to any agent or editor and they’ll all say the same thing. If given a choice between a mediocre manuscript from a writer with an MFA and a remarkable one from a writer who never even went to college, they will always choose the best writing.
The Horror, The Horror: Rereading Yourself
Here is a secret about writers, or at least most writers I know, including me: we don’t like to read our published work.
Five Writing Tips from Mark Bowden
The question most in my mind when writing is: What exactly are you trying to say? A clear answer to that question will help you avoid confusion and cliché.