ON THE VERGE

Some rejections are harder to get than others. Or maybe they’re all equally hard. I should be able to judge this. I’ve gotten all kinds of r...

I hesitate to share this little bit of advice. If too many people followed it, it might dilute some of what makes it so great. But in the sp...

Some people think that Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken is about the benefits of choosing the less traveled, more difficult road in l...

I have a feeling that Stephen King doesn’t clean toilets or drive carpool or host Thanksgiving dinner for 14 people. Maybe I’m wrong. Before...

Ah, the mushy dark sprawling space that is the middle of a novel. If you’re plodding along writing your certain number of words a day, you’l...

When you’re writing a novel you inevitably find yourself at a certain point where the story takes off. You’ve set up your world and you’ve c...

Every morning for the past three years (give or take a handful of days when I was traveling or sick) I have written what Julia Cameron in Th...