Laura Miller at Salon.com offers writers advice on how to write better fiction.

A lynx crosses the finish area during the first training run for the men’s downhill race of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, B.C.

Toni Morrison said, when she started writing, “It was as though I had nothing left but my imagination. I wrote like someone with a dirty habit. Secretly. Compulsively. Slyly.”

Winner of the Valentine’s Day drawing announced for an autographed copy of Seeking Sara Summers.

To celebrate my 100th post, I’m taking out my ol’ cowboy hat from when I used to live in Colorado and putting names in the hat of anyone who comments on this post or the one from last week. The winner will get a free autographed copy of Seeking Sara Summers.

Would you describe yourself as courageous? Probably not. Not many of us do. Yet courage is an attribute that I think all artists, writers and creative types must develop in order to create, revise, and ultimately launch their creations out into the world.

100th Blog Post and Book Give-Away. If you comment on this post your name goes into a cowboy hat for a free autographed copy of Seeking Sara Summers. Drawing on Valentine’s Day!