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...

Why teach a child to write a novel? It makes them sharper readers, more critical thinkers, and gives them a vast sense of accomplishment, t...

First book. Done. It's sitting there in a neat pile by my desk. My first novel,  Shine Shine Shine , in glittering, glowing advanc...

I write because I believe I am a terrible person and I want to explain. I know I am not all terrible. But I know I am terrible in a signific...

I had this hoodie, see? And it was the only thing that would let me really write. Buried in its terry fleece depths, chewing on its strings,...

I am in Pennsylvania, writing my new novel. Also looking at leaves on the ground, burning up an enormous amount of wood in our fireplace, an...

I started my novel in the year 1999. The first idea was to write a novel about a woman who was pregnant for the first time. I was also pregn...

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 ...

If life is finite, your book stash must be too. I think that hoarding books is a stand against mortality. If we've read them already, we...

Is it just me or does blogging these days seem tragically onerous? It's a little bit like living in a cabin in the woods, all by yoursel...

In spite of the flurry of social media that surrounds me, I am still all alone in the space between my ears. In the moment of any creative a...

Just when you think you're being insulted, it turns out you're being enlightened. So I'm working on the book proposal. My friend...

I guess it may turn out to be that I am the last person in the universe to conclude that I am incapable of writing books for children. My tw...

It's hard to write about death. I didn't realize how hard it was until I tried to really do it myself. There was a professor at my c...