Instead of arriving with instruction, a story behaves more like people--no instruction booklet. Sarah Sally Hamer shares her search for the story's soul.

Susan Watts shares several discoveries that completely changed the way she revises emotional scenes, making the scenes stronger.

A practical (and humorous) look at how to channel your inner "Creative Badass." Plus. how to know when your creative well is depleted, and WHY.

Revision is a holistic view of your work, not the fine details of editing. Here's some suggestions to keep writing when temptation to revise is too great.

As writers, we’ve been conditioned to think of our entire future as dependent upon the success of our books. What a nasty little trap.