The Writer's Pocket Guide

Begin Here.

Committing to POV: First Person

Storytelling is a Delicious Word Picnic

Eddie Van Halen Teaches Psychic Distance

Objective Correlatives: Build a House of Emotion

Dialogue Treads Lightly: Breaking Bad

Missing Persons

When Reality Bites

What We Talk About When We Talk About Stories

Verb-Tense Time Machine

Dialogue Basics: What It Is, What It Isn't

Fail at This, Fail at Everything: A Lesson in Clarity from David Foster Wallace

Scents and Sounds: Memory as Muse

Dialogue Cheat Sheet

Revision: Making Music With Reader Notes

Narrative Modes: Mix and Match for Texture and Dimension

Diamond in the Slush

Demystifying the Writing Workshop

Developing Ideas: A 4-Step Process

Keep Your Distance: 4 Elements of Storytelling

Writing Effective Workshop Critiques

Layered Characters: Imagine, If You Will