Lydia Netzer

(This post is part of a series. For part 1, click here . For part 2, click here .)  I have one more tip for those of you who are writi...

(This post is part of a series. For part 1, click here .) Not this punch, smartass. The second strategy for putting together a great ...

Sci-fi Version: "For sale: Space suit. Never worn." How hard could it be to write flash fiction!? After all, it only has to b...

I do not have a good story. Or, rather, I do have a good story. It's in my novel. It's about a bald lady and her astronaut husband, ...

I have a client who writes very tight, literary short stories. He has not been able to place them yet with a literary magazine, however. I a...

Imagine Mario Brothers with no bombs, no carnivorous plants, no death pits, no deadly turtles. Imagine Donkey Kong with no giant monkey at t...

An aspiring author recently asked me to help him figure out what to say to his friends before he gave them his novel to read. He wants them ...