Sarah Stone, author of the novel The True Sources of the Nile as well as two books on the craft of writing, has a terrific new post up on RedRoom, “Navigating Time in Fiction”. “What does it mean for a work to traverse different kinds of time? What in each writer’s life, biology, or brain  Read more »

In July of 2003, I found myself in the Central Highlands of Costa Rica, sequestered away with five other writers and artists in a small colony situated on a hill above the small town of Colon. I arrived in Costa Rica with little more than an idea for a novel, the first impressionistic strokes of  Read more »

Our impulse as writers is to attempt to salvage the words, to make good on the promise we made to ourselves when we penned the very first line

…so much of my own buried past comes to surface unexpectedly when I’m reading a book, and I often find myself pausing and marking the page with my finger while I stare off into space, remembering

Sometimes the hardest part about being a writer is committing the first words to paper. This workbook, created by a New York Times bestselling novelist and veteran writing teacher, will banish writer’s block, spark your imagination, and provide endless opportunities to make stories out of thin air. Arranged in a daily progression to help you  Read more »