How Not To Write

Waxy turned me onto this very cool site where a novel is told using Google Maps as the background. It’s really incredible even if my description is lacking…
Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps:

The 21 Steps is told by following the story as it unfolds across a map of the world. Follow the trail by clicking [...]

I’ve been with my wife for a long time. In fact, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of our first date. I love her unconditionally, but there’s one thing that really gets under my skin: she hates the things I write about.
This is a tough one to tackle because she likes the writing [...]

I’ve not posted much recently part of this is because I’m actually writing. Well, I was until I went on a business trip while sick with the flu and now I’m all wonky in the head, but really I’m working at getting back to writing and not blogging or journaling or any of the [...]

In Writing Mysteries (1992, edited by Sue Grafton), children’s author Joan Lowery Nixon contributed this great list of 9 points for keeping children engaged with suspense.

The mystery plot for today’s impatient young readers is fast-paced and filled with action. Writers should pull out all the stops and use any and every technique for establishing [...]

I’m working on a story right now that focuses on painting. Describing paintings in fiction reminds me of something Steve Martin said:

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

A great writer could pull this off, but since I’m not W. Somerset Maugham, I was pleased to find that I could use Scrivener to help [...]