Does anyone know a good, general source for choosing which trees and plants might be found in a certain climate and environment? It's trickier...
We've been through this question before, and I know there are people who "just don't read prologues." But anyway: What are people's senses for...
Here's an interesting thing people might be able to help me with: I'm working on a blog post on an organized way to find ways characters can...
Has anyone tried sending images on Twitter? I've tried, but it keeps showing up as a link rather than the full picture. Anyone know what makes it...
Call this "The Peasant's Dictionary": Tyrant: the guy who conquered your land and killed your father Warlord: the guy who conquered your...
I'm working on a blog post about invisibility powers, and what it might be like to maneuver when the world can't see you. This is going to be the...
I just added an author page on Facebook, and it drives me bazonkers with one thing: every time I post on it it seems to display it as "posted by...
It's one of the most commonly fudged parts of a world: how much does a monster have to eat? In a real-world ecology there's only so much...
Something that's always bugged me is how so many movies (and other cheap storytelling) build drama by getting silly with the facts of a story,...
One trick I've come up with to keep characters from giving information to the reader: Start with the assumption that people don't talk about what...
Since this came up in the Knife-Fighting thread: What things make throwing a knife cinematic rather than real, so writers could partly...
I'm giving a book reading at a convention this month, and I wonder if anyone has any thoughts. Some things I've heard are: pick a section...
I'm working on a speech for a gaming convention (Strategicon, in Los Angeles) and I've settled on the following ways that role-playing,...
Discuss. (Whether it's literal truth or a rougher way to distinguish them.)
Do people find they have a favorite type of action or challenge for a scene? I mean, a given point in the story could be about things as...
Description is getting to be the hardest thing for me to write. I know (and lecture about :)) the basics of which parts of a moment to consider...
How many ways can a villain build a presence in a book, when he's trying to hold back and observe the MCs to learn their magic's secrets? My...
This is an odd one, about an intersection of plot, character, and world: How do people think a plot can develop characters as part of their...
Since Thanksgiving's supposed to be about family, here's a puzzler that's been kicking around my head for a while: A lot of us define magical...
I'm making a Black Friday offer with my paranormal thriller SHADOWED: Friday through Sunday, the Kindle edition will be available FREE. Take a...
