debi o'neille, writing against the wind

Susan Breen’s The Fiction Class , a Plume book published by Penguin Group, offers a great story while feeding your creative brain like a po...

Have you noticed your best friend lately—the one who makes you laugh even when your eyes are rimmed with tears? The one who forgives you...

Since November, Francene Stanley and I have been looking forward to the release of our co-written post-apocalyptic fantasy novel Wind Ove...

Do you belong to a writer's group? You do? Congratulations! It's essential to the process of growing as a writer, of honing your...

"Action is character," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a notebook, meaning that showing a person's actions, and more importan...

I began ghostwriting immediately after I quit writing. That’s right. When rejection letters, numbering in the hundreds, angered me into av...

          As a child in Australia, I grew up entertaining my two younger sisters with stories. Enthralled, they watched me dancing the ro...