Monty Don calls any plant that isn’t where it should be a weed. Dandelions in the daffodil bed? Weed. Dandelions in the wildflower...

I would like to talk to you about my experience with editors for a moment and specifically, grammar. I’ve had four people who have truly,...

I have heard it called the world bible. Until I heard that term, I just called it my rules file and character notes. I build mine as I...

Tropes Done … Pretty Well? Have you ever read a fantasy novel where you knew, within 30–40 pages, everything that was going to happen—but...

I am going to be an internationally renowned physicist, author, biologist, powerlifting champion, and gardener with a flair for airplane...

I am going to ask you to sacrifice a cup of coffee, or at least the price of one. I would love it if you sacrificed the price of your...

I would like you to look at the page structure of a fantasy novel below. An early segment from Clash of Kings We have a familiarity with...

I want to talk to you for a moment about my two cats. Felix is about two years old. He is incredibly athletic, with an easy five-foot...

Let’s talk about my garden for a moment: This garden is a touch overgrown... The garden stretched out like an open wound, raw and gaping...

A few Daffodils... Just as the end of the gardening year is a good time to take stock, so too is the beginning of the gardening year. For...

This is often called line editing, but line editing has multiple parts. Because I am an architectural writer and lean more toward the...

Their time has come... You’ve written your book, and now it’s time to start your edits. Step one: read your book again like a reader....

If you planted a garden in a day, you wouldn’t know if you were successful for a year or more. If you wrote a novel today, and it was the...

Worth their weight in black pepper...or gold... I recently finished a novel and passed it on to three beta readers. One loved it and had...

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Most of us have heard the phrase physician, heal thyself. When it comes to editing and writing, people will say, “Work on your own book,...

Courage is a decision.