Writing advice from a toddler that authors should heed carefully
When my daughter was three years old, still unable to read, she taught me three invaluable lessons about the craft of writing. Specifically, she offered three pieces of criticism that…
A possible cure for writer’s block
I have thankfully never suffered from writer's block, but if you do, perhaps you could try this innovative means of writing in hopes of curing it: Write naked. I can't…
Why does writing instruction so often suck?
Slate’s Matthew J.X. Malady offers any number of reasonable answers to this question, but I think the answer is far simpler: Writing instruction at the elementary, middle, and high school…
I may not be an author yet, but I write like one.
I’ve published three novels since 2009. All three were sold internationally, including the most recent, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, which has been translated into 25 languages worldwide and is…
Can’t find the time to write?
When people tell me they don't have enough time to write, I tell them to throw a trashcan through the window of a bank or airport. – Dan Kennedy, author…
I never know what I’m actually writing about
Long after I finished writing my first novel, SOMETHING MISSING, I discovered, only after my wife and therapist pointed it out to me, that I had written a book about…