Hello! I'm back. If this post feels off, that's my bad. After *counts on fingers* more than three months away, I'm a little rusty. Still,...

As if writing protagonists weren't hard enough, some types are innately more difficult to write than others (at least in my opinion)....

Almost everyone who consumes YA ravenously knows that, more often than not, teen characters are given awful parents. They're alcoholics...

Have you ever read (or written) a book and felt like the characters were flat? Like everything about them was superficial or...

There are always bits and pieces of ideas for books floating around my mind. Sometimes it's a name, a place, an atmosphere, or something...

Hello. It's been a while since I've updated you on my writing. Actually, a long while. October was the last time I went somewhat in-depth...

It doesn't matter if you're a novice or a pro. There will always be some pertinent questions to consider whenever our brain sparks with...

If this one looks a little weird, it's because it is. It's also exactly what it looks like: a 1980s-set horror novel that includes...

I had a profound thought on Monday. Well, maybe not quite profound. Maybe quite ordinary, but I wanted to get your attention. Now that...

Whether we like it or not, all art is influenced by something we've already seen before. Sometimes writers make conscious choices to...