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QUIZ: Your Unfinished Manuscript: Burn It, Bury It, or Let It Live?

Your short story or novel has not been going well, or maybe you’ve even finished it but now discover that you hate it. At the moment of your greatest frustration, you conceive a delicious plan — you’ll [...]

Fun…With Teeth?

Fun...With Teeth

Back when I first got published, I signed a lot of my books with a little extra exuberance—I drew a toothy smiley face and wrote in under it the words “Fun…With Teeth.”

Which was how I saw my fiction—I always wanted my readers to laugh, but I wanted some real edge in there, too.

Because, [...]

Creating Conflict: or, The Joys of Boiling Oil

You’re sitting at your desk staring at your manuscript, realizing that you’ve written ten or fifty or three hundred (ouch) pages in which nothing really happens. People talk to each other and they go places and they do things, but you couldn’t find enough suspense in what they’re doing to fill a thimble, and you’re [...]