Last weekend, This American Life retracted a story -- the one told by the actor who went to China and did a stage show on the hor...

An agent told me recently that when she looks over her list, the mss. that ended up selling the best are the ones that took longest to plac...

I've heard of three people who set out to write best-sellers and actually did: Ian Fleming, Robin Cook -- a doctor who measured his ...

Plot is definitely the thing I struggle most with in writing. Sometimes I think I don't even understand what a good plot is! So I bo...

Recently an older, much more successful author called me up, "to check in." I'm not going to say who it was, because it's...

Does anyone else ever experience this? You're writing something you're supposed to be writing -- something hard. Maybe something yo...

Awhile ago someone talked here about Miss Happiness and Miss Flower -- a story about the two dolls of the title (homesick for Japan) and ...