M.A. Lee

Some writers have driven this monster into a corner where it lurks, the great unmentioned unmentionable waiting to pounce. Others chant the mantra “Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist” in the vain hopes that daily repetition can avoid it.

Discovering Characters is like investigating a house we want to buy. No, I’m serious. Characters have an exterior façade that we comment upon as we drive past. Through the windows we catch glimpses of interior lives. As writers, we want to capture individual characters and save them from the...

What do writers want from plot? What do writers need from plot? Are those questions the same? Not really. As wordsmiths, we writers know that want and need are two different words. · The want is a circumstance that we writers can control. We want plot specifics to help us craft story and exceed...