Free Short Stories and a Play
Lucky Socks
The Magician's Apprentice
Witches Without Magic
Saving the Moon
Race of the Gods
Nor Will I Ever
The Hand Me Down Bag
The Ghost Who Loves Shoes
Needle and Spit
The Vampire Musician
The Stepmother's Story
Stolen Heart
THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING PRINCESS is freely available for
anyone who would like to use it in community theater or in a school setting. As written, it has 27 parts (12 princess, 2 queens, a lady in waiting, a maid and a cook, plus 2 kings, a prince,
a captain of the guard, a royal eagle, a duck and a goat, a farmer, a serving boy, and a guard) but it can be added to or subtracted from as necessary.
Essays on Writing
What Do I Write? (October 2008 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (November 2008 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Find Time (December 2008 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
What A Story Is (January 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Write Twisty Plots (February 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Write a Fantasy for Young People (March 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Write a Strong Heroine (April 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
50 Miles of Writing (May 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Create a Series Hero (June 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Deal With Jealousy (July 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Catharsis (August 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Write a Villain (September 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Viewpoint (October 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Backstory (November 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Prodigies (December 2008 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Dialog (January 2010 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
20 Novels That Will Never Be Published and Why (February 2010 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
The Author-Editor Relationship (April 2010 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
10 Top Mistakes I Made as a Writer (May 2010 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
14 Agent Questions (July 2009 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
How to Find a Writing Group (June 2010 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
In The Details (July 2010 Chopsticks at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Other Random Bits and Pieces on Writing
My Theory of Romance
13 Elements of Romance
20 tips on revision
12 lessons in revision
7 tips on dialog
20 Rules of Bad writing
Letter to Young Writers
Beginning FAQ's
Advanced FAQ's
Sequels
Advice to Parents and Teachers
Books on Writing
Especially For Kids, Parents, and Teachers of Writing
Horrible Writing from My Early Years
My First Stories
Early Good Writing
My "Said-Bookism" Rant
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