Drops of Blood

I recommend Morgan Hawke’s Dark Erotica website to all writers, not just those who write steamier scenes. Writing damned good smut is hard work. (Okay, let’s skip all the “hard” jokes. heh-heh.)
This site frequently includes thoughtful essays on the bones of writing — plotting, characterization, etc. See the archives for “High Speed Plotting,” a look [...]

Even the sea of crumbled, bobbing* Post-It notes in my living room can’t wipe the smile off my face. No actual “writing” output last night, but I did manage to plot out the novel over the course of an evening. Took me 53 Post-It notes, but I now know the chronology of about 95% of [...]

(This post was transferred from my now-defunct “Unshelved Writing Goals” blog.)
I’m currently planning to use the Snowflake Method for this year’s novel-writing project. It’s a structure that lets you start with a sentence, enlarge it to a paragraph, expand that to a page, and then continue expanding each component until you have a rough [...]