Kathryn Page Camp

  Years ago, I attended a conference workshop where the presenter said it was important to signal the genre in the first few pages of a nove...

  There are no hard core rules for fiction—they can all be broken if the writer does it intentionally to achieve a particular effect. But on...

  Writers, myself included, often begin a story too early, giving a lot of background before reaching the place where the story really start...

One of the regular readers of this blog told me that she found last week’s entry a bit confusing. Many writers are not educators and don...

As I prepared to pitch a novel at a conference last week, I thought about how many ways I had started it before finding one that work...