Posts contained in the “The Writing Life” category:

Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules for Novelists


Share this…               The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money. Never use the word then as a conjunction—we have and for this purpose. Substituting then is the lazy or tone-deaf writer’s non-solution to the problem …read more…


Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling

Stones by water

Share this…             I found this on Reddit. I’m not sure if the story about Pixar is true, but it’s good storytelling advice, for the most part. Of course, if you need an entire book about good writing advice, I recommend Chuck Wendig’s Damn Fine Story: Share this…