In Conversation

Writing about writing

Fetlocks and caparisons: On finding the right word

Recently, I started Blood of Elves, the first in The Witcher series. Quickly, I was struck by the author’s vocabulary. As in page 2. “… a horse’s belly and a frayed girth flashing by above her...

The ‘shackles of originality’: escaping a specific kind of writer’s block

The pressure to be completely original—to write something no one has ever conceived—is a creativity killer. Some of our favorite stories borrowed, remixed and re-imagined their way to greatness...

Rediscovering the fun of writing

For those who write Literature with a capital ‘L’, and find themselves not writing much at all. Or, the one where Jessica outs herself as a huge Trekkie...