Is the first draft the hardest? Is it different from a third draft, or a twelfth? Does a first draft possess unique challenges that we have to attack in a one-of-a-kind way? Yes, yes and yes. First drafts are killers A first draft is different from (and more difficult than) all subsequent drafts because in…
"Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what's been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new."
Today would have been the 98th birthday of Ray Bradbury, the greatest sci-fi writer in history, who (by no small coincidence) also happened to know a thing or two about writing. Like many American …
AlphaSmart NEO: Why this crappy portable word processor is GREAT for writing!
The AlphaSmart NEO and the AlphaSmart 3000 are a couple of portable word processors that are terrible for surfing the web – making them great for writing.
How to Write Creative Fiction: Umberto Eco's Four Rules
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was one of the bestselling authors of all time. In Confessions of a Young Novelist, he shares some unique advice for writing fiction.