wordswimmer

Questioner: How do you know what to write? Wordswimmer: You don't know before you begin. Q: Don't you plan ahead? W: Sometimes. But ...

Lately I've shortened the time I spend writing in the morning. In part it's an effort to re-charge my energy after a busy month and ...

The other day I finished a YA novel by one of my favorite authors and felt as if I’d scraped my knees on the bottom of the pool. Until I tu...

If you want your reader to stay submerged in your story, to keep going deeper and turning pages to find out what happens next, you need to g...

Each time you put words down on paper, you're raising certain expectations in your reader, not only about what will happen next but why ...

Whenever I open a book lately, I find myself thinking about my expectations as a reader. We all have expectations of what we want to happen...