The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to...

I have an idea and a first line — and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of...

Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don’t describe it–make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make...