While I was in Toronto launching my new book, The National Gallery, I sat down at The Drake Commissary with thriller author Andrew Pyper to discuss the process of writing his novels, specifically how he creates and makes use of story outlines. Pyper’s latest novel is The Homecoming, a genre-blending thriller with science fiction and […]
I have been a fan of S. M. Beiko’s webcomic Krampus Is My Boyfriend since page one, and generally impressed with Beiko since I started paying attention to her work. As she finished work on the first 48-page print collection of the online story, I interviewed Beiko about how to get your start in webcomics, and comics […]
One of the most common problems a writer faces — in fact, one of the most common problems most people face — is the question of how to focus. I’ve devised one simple, elegant answer: the Focus Form. Listen to the podcast below or scroll further down for the article version. I have a new […]
Unfortunately, most writers see themselves as artists. However, writing is not art. Literature is art, but writing is manual labour. If you want to create great art, you have to sit down at your desk and push all thoughts of that goal from your mind. Instead of the hoped-for product of your work, you need to […]