I’ve been in head-butting situations with editors as a writer. In one case, I was asked to withdraw a story because I wouldn’t make the requested change. I explained that it would change the whole meaning of the story. She wanted to change the whole…
When you write, there’s a certain satisfaction and even relief to coming to the end of the story. But how do you know you’ve come to the end? If what you’ve written is a rough or a first draft, you know you haven’t really come…
Some writers feel that their characters are autonomous; they speak and act on their own, and the author just follows them around and writes things down. I’m not one of them. Yes, your characters have to seem to be autonomous. Your characters have to seem…
