
A Writer Reads, Always
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to […]

Well, Darlings, You’re Weighing Us Down . . .
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill […]

This Thing’s Important, Right?
One of my favorite books from the Children’s Lit classes I took in college was Treasure […]

Villain Under Construction: Villain Arcs
We’ve been talking character arcs at SNW, so I wanted to bring out once special kind […]

Dross and Hero Stuff
Can we be brutally honest? As a writer, you simply cannot be a nice person – […]

To Wiki or Not To Wiki
So before I started teaching writing, I was a Youth librarian. And as everybody says, you […]