When you go to a social event, it helps to be able to read the room.  You can see the reaction of the people you’re talking to, shifting topics to hold their interest and adapting along the way.  But you can’t do that with writing.  What’s on the page is what readers are going to […]

I had an interesting conversation earlier this week with a friend who writes music.  He was talking about how he had a revelation at some point that if you don’t really enjoy the music that you are choosing to play, the audience will be able to tell.  And he said that before that point, he felt […]

When we talk about good writing, that can mean many things.  Maybe you’re saying’ it’s a genre you enjoy, or that the writer has mastered a specific technique.  Or maybe the themes resonate with you for personal reasons. But maybe you mean that the book flowed naturally and felt easy to read.  Part of that means […]