Just How Useful is ChatGPT for Writing Fiction? Screaming headlines about using AI for writing (horror! useful? takeover???) appear in the newspapers, Substacks (ditto), and magazines strewn across my bedside, laptop, desk—and everywhere else there’s an available surface for spreading . . . just as I wiggle … Read more
Time is writing’s best friend Time to writeTime to let it mellowTime to readTime to rewrite Time to wait long enough to get your eyes Randy Susan Meyers
Answering questions off the cuff is my favorite way of presenting—surprising (embarrassing?) myself with on-my-feet answers as I stumble into learning things I didn’t know about myself. Thus, when author Anjali Mitter Duva asked me to participate in the Arlington Author Salon, I was thrilled—until I cringed, imagining filling fifteen minutes without seeing or interacting with … Read more
Every time I teach “Structuring a Novel With Good Bones” I learn again how difficult it is to condense the process into six hours . . . and how exhilarating it is to step back and look at the entire process. At day’s end, it seemed as though I’d climbed a mountain where (for a … Read more
(first published in 2011) Originally, I tried to resist writing this 9especially after my plea against categorizing authors.) Plus, so many of us hide our age in this world of never-get-old, unearthing this information, even in our Googlized world, was difficult. But when, along with the plethora of lists of writers under 40, I was faced … Read more