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Issue 94 just went out to subscribers. In this issue I discuss a couple of things: the divide between Academic writers and Commercial writers and more about electronic publishing. If you’re a subscriber, you should have an e-mail from me letting you know where to get the latest issue.

Today, just in time for Lupercalia, issue #93 of The Secrets is heading out to subscribers. The article in this issue is titled Tests of Character. It deals with all those ways, big and small, that we get to reveal and explore the characters in our stories. As subscribers have become accustomed to by now, […]

Last week I mentioned that I’d become involved in Second Life. A bunch of you have come and visited. It’s been great fun meeting you all, and I’m looking forward at meeting more of you. Kat Alderson, my partner at ThirdLife, and I are working hard at putting together a bunch of programs and setting […]

Some of you may recall The Rules of Writing were a key component for the first ten episodes of The Secrets podcast. The Rules of Writing were originally published in issues 2-21 of my writing newsletter, The Secrets. I’ve finally pulled them from those issues and collected them all in one forty-one page long book. […]

Issue 81 of The Secrets Newsletter went out to subscribers today. The article in this issue, Growth versus Change, takes a look at how many fictional characters change but never grow. I go in depth into techniques and approaches that make identifying growth areas much easier. Characters who change but do not grow do not […]

Issue 80 of The Secrets Newsletter went out to subscribers today. This issue is devoted to an article titled Morality in Fiction. In it I discuss our responsibilities as writers to our readers and to ourselves when choosing what sort of issues we address, and how we address them. Much of fiction gets dismissed as […]

J. C. Hutchins, the genius behind and author of the wildly successful Seventh Son novels—which he has been podcasting—interviewed me on the most recent of his hiatus-casts. The third, and possibly concluding volume in the trilogy, will debut on 07.07.07. Our discussion ranged all over the place and was a lot of fun. And if […]