Real Life as Experiment: Letting Characters Play in Your Life
The author of Restitution (Regal House Publishing, September 2025) recommends writers use their own memories as a testing ground for their characters.
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Conveying Music and Dance in Fiction: Forgetting the Outline
The author of Duet for One (Regal House Publishing, May 2025) recommends writers discover their structure as they write.
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Desire, Physicality, Contradiction
The author of Freedom Is a Feast explores tactics for creating compelling, human, three-dimensional characters.
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Food and Fiction
The author of Freedom Is a Feast considers cuisine and its place in fictional narratives.
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The Power of Nerding Out
The author of Anyone’s Ghost contemplates the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and how it has influenced his writing life.
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Ten Questions for Maureen Sun
“My ambition isn’t to write something that lets you shut out the world.” —Maureen Sun, author of The Sisters K
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On Person and Place
The author of I’ll Give You a Reason explores how setting shapes characters.
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Familiar Characters
The author of Short War contemplates the rewards of modeling minor characters on real people.
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Ten Questions for Phillip B. Williams
“I would write the scene and shake my head in disbelief that a character wanted to do that.” —Phillip B. Williams, author of Ours
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The Myth of Realism: Belief and Incredulity in Fiction
The author of The Last Language explores the relationship between individual subjectivity and the ability to suspend disbelief when reading fiction.
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