How to Write a Page-Turner: What Essays Can Teach Novelists
The Da Vinci Code is fast paced, a “page-turner.” Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is not. We don’t need Writer’s Digest to define...
When Less Really Is More: What Comics Can Teach Novelists
Consider the Comic where what’s not on the page is as important as what is. So says comic artist and writer Scott McCloud in his...
Pow! Zap! What Short Stories Can Teach Novelists
Novels are my second love, the roast beef in my diet. And I relish the meal. But I down short stories like chocolates. For their density....
Dharma Buds: Revision Road with Buddha and the Gecko
I have just spent two-and-a-half years revising my novel.* The odds on getting it published feel, well, long. My writer friends...
How Do You Say Hamburger in Farsi? What Ad Writers Can Teach Novelists
Some years ago I taught Communications 201 at Boston University. It was a plum job, as adjunct jobs go, because our students longed to be...
