Word Matters Articles

I’ve been in the car a lot lately. In fact, almost all of my writing time has been spent driving. I always hope that those hours in the car could be good thinking time for fiction planning, but they just aren’t. Deep thinking and hurtling along a road at seventy miles...

House, home, dwelling, residence… I’ve been thinking about the nuances of these words and why the distinctions matter.

Character-driven fiction can change the way we see the world by helping us practice looking from a different perspective. It’s possible in any genre.