Quick Writing Tips Free Video Series

Looking for some quick, easy ways to improve your writing? Here’s a free series of short (each is under 5 minutes) writing tips videos. They focus on some of the most common prose problems that I’ve seen writers struggle with over my two decades of teaching creative writing. My goal in making these videos was […]

AI & Fiction: Limitations, How It’s Helpful, and What Writers Need to Do to Keep the Human Element Alive

Writers, if you’re curious/nervous about AI text generators like ChatGPT taking over, you might find this article helpful. My students and I spent weeks exploring ChatGPT to explore its uses and limitations for writing fiction. If you’re at all worried about being replaced by a machine, you’ll definitely want to read this.  What Writers Need […]

Writing Advice Part II (my top six other best pieces of advice)

The single best piece of writing advice I ever got was to write the book you most want to read (more on that here). After that, here are six other bits of writing advice that have made the biggest difference for me (and that I need to keep reminding myself of to keep on going). […]