The Literary Mercenary

The most common piece of advice I've heard since the point I decided to become an author (around age 13 or 14, I think it was), is that ...

One of the major appeals of writing fiction is the idea that if you don't know the answer to something that you can just make it up. Not...

For those of you who haven't come across the article A Dirty Secret: You Can Only Be A Writer If You Can Afford It by Lynn Steger Stron...

The figure in blackened armor rode through the muck of the street, light rain beading on his helm like sweat. His horse snorted, blowing ste...