Why should I care? Why should you?

Why should I care? Why should you?

by | Jul 13, 2025 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

Rachel Toalson wrote a wonderful blog post for Writer UnBoxed. It’s about getting to the heart of your story — why you wrote it and why readers will remember it long after they finished reading it. Sometimes it’s really hard finding the heart of your story. If you...
Writing Across Genres

Writing Across Genres

by | Jul 6, 2025 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

Does your mystery novel have a romance in it? Does your speculative fiction have a mystery element? Does your romance take place on another planet? It seems that there’s a lot of cross-genre writing going on. I attribute this to indie- publishing. Traditional...
Historical Accuracy is Fiction

Historical Accuracy is Fiction

by | Jun 29, 2025 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

There was recently a discussion on the Regency Fiction Writers’ forum concerning historical accuracy. For a group whose courses mostly teach accurate historical detail (everything from architecture to dancing to cookery), there were a number of authors who commented...
Should Fiction Writers use AI Tools?

Should Fiction Writers use AI Tools?

by | Jun 22, 2025 | Blog, Method, Writing

I could have written this article with AI or had AI write it for me. The question is, is that right? Ethical? How much AI should an author use? To answer this question, I did some research into AI writing tools. Let me tell you, there are a lot! A lot more than I...
Writing Ritual vs. Routine

Writing Ritual vs. Routine

by | Jun 15, 2025 | Blog, Life, Method, Writing

If you write every morning for half an hour before work, you’ve got a writing routine. Do you decide on a weekly goal to write so many words? That would be a writing routine. Do you tell yourself that you’re going to get a scene written every day and then do so?...
The importance of speed

The importance of speed

by | Jun 8, 2025 | Blog, Life, Method, Writing

I use Comcast as my internet provider. Recently, they emailed me (perhaps you got it too?) telling me that the internet speed I pay for is more than my modem can handle. So I’m paying for 1 gbps, but only getting a fraction of that because my modem is too old...