Authors and Ideas Part One: Stephen King on Duma Key

One of the most frequent questions I get asked as an author is where I get my ideas from. It got me thinking – not only about where I get my own ideas but how other writers dredge them up from the murky soup of the subconscious. I thought I’d do a series...

A Cell Phone Ate My Plot

Great piece in the New York Times about how technology is ruining classic plot devices. You know the sort of thing – a missed connection, one character not being able to get hold of another at a vital moment…All of this is particularly applicable to...