Writing Advice on MySpace

Part 1: A Million Bad Words

Part 2: How to Tell It's Not Crap

Part 3: Education  

Part 4: Inspiration  

Part 5: Writer's Block  

Part 6: Education, Part 2 

Part 7: Write What You Know (kinda) 

Part 8: Q&A (in which I answer questions about PublishAmerica, editing careers, editing old work, and "social issues" fiction)

Part 9: Q&A #2 (in which I answer questions about distinguishing real-life from make-believe and what you should write each day)

Part 10: Show and Tell and More

Part 11: Dialogue (Part 1) 

Part 12: Dialogue (Part 2) 

Part 13: Dialogue (Part 3)

Part 14: Dialogue (Part 4)

Part 15: Dialogue (Part 5)

Part 16: Final Dialogue 

Part 17: Adverbs/Starting Actions 

Part 18: Reality  

Part 19: Q&A #3

Part 20: Point of View

Part 21: Overwriting  

Part 22: Cinematic Prose  

Part 23: Q&A #4 (how to start your story; what to do when another story seems similar to yours) 

Part 24: The Path to Publication (Part 1)  

Part 25: The Path to Publication (Part 2) 

Part 26: The Path to Publication (Part 3)  

Part 27: The Path to Publication (Part 4)

Part 28: The Path to Publication (Part 5 -- Q&A)

Part 29: The Path to Publication (Part 6)  

Part 30: Cover Letters

Part 31: Rewriting and "Is it worth it?"  

Part 32: Building Characters  

Part 33: Building Characters (Pt. 2)  

Part 34: Money

Part 35: Q & A (Endings and the Best Part about Being an Author)

Part 36: Outlines  

Part 37: Overcomplicating  

Part 38: Copyright

Part 39: My Method

Part 40: Q & A (Scene Transitions and Best Friends as Critique Partners)