Apropos of our Writing Wednesdays, a friend of mine just started an editorial services company called “What’s Your Story?” designed to help aspiring writers polish their work and navigate the publishing world. You can find out about the services they offer on their website, www.pacetopp.com. For those in New York, they’re holding an inaugural full…

You have an idea. You might even have a first chapter. Now what? Where does the book go from here? To outline or not to outline, that is the question. If you ask people in the writing community, they generally divide themselves into two camps: outliners and “pantsers” (or people who work by the seat…

My first advice to you as we embark upon our series of Writing Wednesdays? Ignore advice. When I say ignore, I don’t mean stick your fingers in your ears and hum. But do take anything that I or anyone else says with a grain of salt. There are entire industries out there devoted to telling…

That does sound a little recursive, doesn’t it? Not to mention alarmingly alliterative. (This is the last time I let Augustus Whittlesby write my blog headers!) I’m launching a new feature on the website: Writing Wednesdays. Like everything else on the website, this is a figure-it-out-as-I-go sort of thing, but the idea behind it is…