Jack* is a writer without any education in the craft of writing. He has inspiration, talent, and time, and has composed a strong story. Good plot, good conflict, good resolution. 

“I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.” Does this line of Gertrude Stein’s help justify-for the pen and paper types-the digitalization of language?

I volunteered for the first time at the San Francisco Writers’ Conference at the Mark Hopkins Hotel over Valentine’s weekend and had quite a positive professional experience there.

Steve Almond is a genius when it comes to instructing writers about writing about sex (or not writing about sex). “Remember that the sexiest thing about sex is really desire, which is just a fancy word for not getting laid.”

The best route to take to either get critical acclaim or make a living as a serious fiction writer remains the traditional route. It is only the traditional route that affords writers the promise of big advances,