Joshua Napilay·Oct 23Is This Sentence Worth Keeping? Score It With This Simple RubricYou are rereading a draft, and you stop on a sentence. Nothing is wrong with it. The grammar holds, the rhythm is fine, and yesterday you…
Bill Conrad·May 27My Temp FileWhen I decided to become an author in 2017, I had no fiction writing experience. Still, I had created many technical documents over my…
InMiddle-PausebyMarilyn Flower·May 13Come on, Sisters, Let’s Tighten Up!Our stories, that is.A response icon5A response icon5
Bill Conrad·Apr 9If It Isn’t Broke, Fix ItI have taken a shallow dive into documenting my self-editing process, but never fully exposed all the gory details. This seemed like a fun…
Marla Press·Jan 20Fragmentation Fatigue: The Overwhelming Cost of Self-Editing“Why didn’t I just say it?”
Bill Conrad·Dec 24, 2025Editing My LifeI am putting the final touches on the outline for my next book. This effort includes a character biography that lists connections to other…
InWrite Your WorldbyMhairi Evans·Nov 25, 2025Fiction in the Age of Feedback: Can Writers Still Surprise Readers?We live in the era of instant validation, but surprise still belongs to the braveA response icon2A response icon2
Alex McCarthy·Nov 12, 2025Revisiting First Paragraphs: Ender’s Game“I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one. Or at least as close as we’re going to get.”
Alex McCarthy·Nov 9, 2025Revisiting First Paragraphs: MortThis is the bright candlelit room where the life-timers are stored — shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for every living…
Alex McCarthy·Nov 6, 2025Revisiting First Paragraphs: Never Let Me GoMy name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but…
