Fiction is uniquely positioned to develop and increase empathy, because it provides a way around and under and through the barriers most...

The truth is stranger than fiction. We hear this saying all the time. A story will run on the national news or Facebook or even in y...

Talk to yourself. It’s okay. If I were not a writer, but say, a normal person, trying to write a clever guest post about writing, I...

The Journey Without a Map: Writing By The Seat of Your Pants Where do story ideas come from? It’s a question writers are commonly a...

I got the idea for Jonathan’s Shield several years ago when I stumbled onto the story In 1 st Samuel. It’s a little remembered incide...

Ever since I first saw George Pal’s epic movie The Time Machine in 1960, at the tender age of twelve, I have been fascinated by the ...

We all like a challenge, don't we? As the new year begins, whether you're a resolution making person or not, it is often a time...

In the great television series Castle , character Teddy Farrow in the episode “Inventing the Girl” (third episode, second season) decla...

I think part of the reason I became a writer is because I’m fascinated by people. While plots, of course, are important to storytellin...

My novel Pale Highway was inspired by my experiences working with Alzheimer’s patients in a nursing home, a time which redefined every...

Recently, I was talking to my creative writing students about the challenges of the editing process (both on my own and with my editors...

When I found out I would be guest blogging for Big Al, and on Halloween of all days, I knew my post had to be brilliant. I mean, nothing ...