In this episode, Mary navigates the murky world of balancing fact and fiction when your fiction is set in a world like our own.

Mary shares her inverted pyramid guide to researching for a novel and talks about why she does all her best research after 3 p.m.

In this episode, Mary talks about juggling projects, following creativity's lead, and The Bachelorette.

The trick to writing believable dialogue is to remember a key thing about humans: we're bad at it.

All the questions answered during Season 1 in one quick-to-digest episode!

If you have to have a protagonist, you must need an antagonist, right? No. What you do need is more interesting.

All stories have a history. How much of that history you share with the reader, and where you bring it in, can determine whether that reader sticks with your book or not. In this episode, we discuss a rule of thumb for incorporating backstory into your novel or memoir.

Am I writing a short story or a novel? Am I ready to write my memoir? Mary addresses how to decide, and when the right time is to make the call.

Every writer struggles with the middle. In this episode, Mary shares her favorite tactic for making it through.