Writer in a Foreign Land

The quality of dialog varies from writer to writer, from book to book and sometimes even within one book. There is ugly dialog, which lets ...

The next two Sundays I'll write about the 100 ways to say say, good dialog vs. bad dialog and dialog in real live vs writing dialog...

Know thyself. As a writer - as well as anybody else -  you have to know your strength and weaknesses. I'm good in describing. I can...

Inspiring commencement speech from Wellesley High School.  This is not only true for high-school graduates, but also very much for new ...

Among all writing advise there is one, which I find the most compelling one: Write a lot, read a lot. I'm trying hard to write a lot, k...

How to use quotation marks by Grammar Girl. A simple thing one could mean... 

We all love villains. Haven't we all waited for the moment when Anakin Skywalker turns into Darth Vader. Isn't it always the villai...