I recently set up a website to promote a new suspense novel. Once it started receiving hits I began getting questions about why I chose to write in third person. The truth is, I didn’t make a conscious decision to write that way. I just sort of happened and I went with it. As I […]

An important question for any artist is: How can I built a career and simultaneously be true to myself? It’s an important question, and during the twenty years I’ve taught writing, hundreds of students have expressed the belief that success and personal integrity are mutually exclusive.
The Lifewriting approach to fiction suggests that not only do […]

Sometimes my dreams frighten me. Sometimes they crack me up. Literally. The whole scene from the movie The Waterboy–in which a college professor asks the class why alligators are aggressive and in which Adam Sandler stand ups and scientifically explains “Because alligators got all them teeth and no toothbrush”replayed in a dream and apparently made […]

You’ve probably read lots on effective copywriting strategies, how toutilise keywords, and various tricks of the trade for making sure yourcopywriting is as effective as possible. This is good stuff … anythingthat results in a better website is worth reading and absorbing.
However, before you learn to walk, you need to learn to crawl. Before youbegin […]