Writing rules are upstart clerks with guns. This new lesson in the Writers section tells you why and what you should do with them.

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I was expecting 30 people to attend the 3 Things You Must Learn to Write Killer Stories workshop. I mean, heck, who wants to listen to me when you could, on the very day designated for it, be pitching woo? But  about 60 brave souls came out. So here’s the handout for all of you who didn’t get one. Killer →

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This is the first “mystery.” It is the grand unifying theory that unlocks everything that follows. The key to this mystery can be discovered in the answer to this question: which of the two pictures below most accurately defines lipstick? Picture A Picture B Learn more in the writer’s section (okay, so the page is →

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If you want to learn how to write stories that move and entertain, you will do whatever it takes–crawl across broken glass, mortgage your dog, eat brown bananas–to get into Card’s week-long, literary boot camp.  This is the workshop that changed everything for me. And while Card will say it had nothing to do with →

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Where do you get your ideas? How do you turn them into story? Those are fabulous questions. The answer is a bit longer than I have time for today. But I have posted my list of idea generation methods, structured ways of performing creative Q&A. These have been collected over the years from a number →

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