Sarah Mae Scanlon wasn’t a particularly religious person, never attended church services, but she loved the holidays. She loved all the...

"When you’re writing fiction, how often do your characters sigh? That's too often." What is a sigh? It’s a deep, slow breath that is...

Clocks go tick-tock. Horses go clip-clop. Doorbells go ding-dong. Why don’t they go tock-tick, clop-clip, and dong-ding? And why is the...

3-D writing is the art of surrounding readers with your story, pulling them in and making them a part of it rather than just a reader....

3-D writing is the art of surrounding readers with your story, pulling them in and making them a part of it rather than just a reader....

A few years back, my wife and I went to see the movie Avatar in 3-D. I hadn’t seen a 3-D movie since I was a kid in some distant century....