Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who...

Storytellers think they’re writing for the audience. They’re writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It’s stuff that doesn’t fly by tropes or adhere to rules — appropriate, perhaps, since...

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Failure. Never before has a thing gotten such a bad rap as failure. And why wouldn’t it? It’s failure. In a video game, failure means to fucking die, to drop into a pit of lava...

The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop...

Story should be a descent — the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window.