I get a lot of emails from people who want to be a writer but don’t know how to do it. They say: I’m worried I’m too old to be a writer. Or: I don’t have a degree in English, so I can’t be a writer. Or: I didn’t do any creative writing courses, so […]

Writer’s block. Most writers encounter it at some point in their career. But who better to learn how to overcome writer’s block from than some of the most successful writers publishing today?  26 Ways to Defeat Writer’s Block: A MasterClass in Writing These lessons in defeating writer’s block come from Neil Gaiman, James Patterson, Dan […]

True art is a reflection of the artist at a particular epoch in their life. Some argue that the artist should be invisible. Whether this is true or not, instilling your art with the era you’re living doesn’t have to draw attention to the artifice.  No matter what you’re writing, you have to bring what […]

The Joyce Carol Oates Teaches the Art of the Short Story MasterClass came at the exact right time. MasterClass are masters of serendipity. It’s right when I embark on a mission to write a string of short stories that they announce one of my writing heroes Joyce Carol Oates is going to teach that very […]