What’s wrong with losing everything? Everyone loves a hero on the edge of losing everything. A hero who manages to, against all odds,...

Oh, yeah. I’m FULL of it. You heard me. Today’s advice? The Toolbox. Every writer needs a toolbox. You can fix a sink and an oven...

Marcus Aurelius once said, “Of each particular thing, ask what is it in itself? What is its nature?” Okay, that wasn’t Marcus Aurelius,...

If you’re a golfomizer, or a footballman, or a boxerist (Not a sports guy. At all.) then you practice your moves. You learn the proper...

Practice. If you want to play a sport, you have to learn how. You need to learn not just the rules but the technique. If you golf, you...

The secret to good fiction isn’t plot. It isn’t setting. It’s the characters. It’s characters we want; characters we love. Characters we...

All things serve the story. Easy to say, hard to put into practice. As writers, we’re all in love with every word we grunt-and-push out...

Toni Bennett here. Harry and I are the main characters in Aaron's Bennett & DeMarko Mystery series. Aaron has been busy with school AND...

A couple of months ago I was asked to do an interview on Magician, the first book in the Veiled Earth Series. I thought you might enjoy...

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause, or sentence. Adverbs typically...