Wednesday Craft: Oct. 16, 2024

A midweek booster injection of writing ideas designed to help you get better at the craft of fiction.

As I return for this week’s Wednesday Craft, consider yourself dusted with red dirt from the American Southwest. I’m fresh off a road trip from the depths of Carlsbad Caverns and the Grand Canyon to the heights of the Rockies in New Mexico, and I’m raring to talk writing again with you all.

This Wednesday Craft includes:

• getting the copyeditor to leave your prose alone

• how to tell if your writing is improving

• the importance of investing in your writing

• talking about your cross-genre novel

• earning reader buy-in on your plot