People-watching is some of the most instructive work we can do for creating richly and fully developed characters on the page. Seeing how people interact, their demeanor and affect and mannerisms, all gives us tools for bringing characters to life on the page and letting readers| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Over dinner with friends the other night, I commented in conversation that I had recently deleted all the social media apps off my phone. Their eyes got big. “Wow,” one said. “Good for you,” the other ch| FoxPrint Editorial
I recently encountered an AI writing issue in my work that I should have foreseen yet somehow didn't. An author turned in a second-round revision of a story that was already very good when I saw it in its first-draft form, but needed development and deepening, as many early dra| FoxPrint Editorial
A publishing company recently made a splash in publishing industry news by announcing that they hope to “disrupt” the book business by publishing around 8,000 titles a year using AI to automate much of the production cycle. They advertise that if you give them a manuscript, withi| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. That’s a bleak blog title, and this post is going to get bleaker before it gets better, but come with me if you want to live. Not long after ChatGPT was widely unveiled I asked the artificial-intelligen| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Last week my husband sent me this terrifying article—a Microsoft study about the 40 jobs likely to be most imminently impacted by AI and the 40 that might be safest. I’m going to let you guess where writ| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Over lunch with a friend last week, I told her I was working with the idea of tolerating discomfort in my life. She literally shuddered. “I don't even like to think about that,” she said. I couldn’t blam| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. This is not the way that phrase is usually deployed, of course—instead we get the über-American, ultra-type-A, seriously pressure-inducing, “Failure is not an option!” But I’ve been thinking a bit about| FoxPrint Editorial
The Great and Terrible Power of No in Your Writing| FoxPrint Editorial
As creatives we are constantly facing choices—many of them in our art blessedly malleable, at least until we’ve published our stories (and even after that, if we indie publish). If you don’t like one path you’ve sent your character down, you can hit delete and let them travel a n| FoxPrint Editorial
Advice to authors to create a newsletter is ubiquitous, and the reasons are generally solid. It's a direct line of communication to people who are very interested in your work. It's a platform that's totally within your own control and ownership, and the mailing list is your own,| FoxPrint Editorial
Writing starts out as pure enjoyment, but it's a skill that is far more involved and complex than it may initially seem. This past week I spoke with a writer who has literally decades of experience and is a major bestselling author. She's on her third pass of the manuscript we'| FoxPrint Editorial
So often we're busy measuring our lives and our success by the lacks--what we haven't accomplished yet, our goals that we feel we've fallen short of. But what if we flip that around—look not at the empty space in our glass, but how much we've managed to fill it?| FoxPrint Editorial