Tag: how to write a novel

• March 7, 2015

  Hard lessons in writing: Once you finish, do it again.

  I mean, of course, that deja-vu insanity, editing. As a novelist, you’ve got to not only write the whole book, but then you have to sit down and read it […]

• December 28, 2014

  Deliberate flubbing.

  When you’re writing fiction, you have to make the same grammatical mistakes that your characters would make. As in, the same mistakes that human beings make when they’re talking. When […]

• December 7, 2014

  “I decided to be a writer.”

  I like listening to my local public radio station, but sometimes the guests make me want to scream. In the last few weeks, two different shows interviewed the guy who […]