Articles on Craft:

• What is a short story? a potentially controversial topic

• Forms of Fiction: a review of things that are not stories

• Quotes, Squibs & Opinions on short fiction

• A Checklist of Short Story Elements: a diagnostic run-through

• A Primer on Point of View: Who's telling your story?

 What's cool in and out of school:

• If you are in high school and thinking about college writing programs
  

• If you are in college and want to prepare yourself to be a writer
  

• If you are in college (or out) and thinking about graduate writing programs
  

• If you don't want a graduate degree -- or have dropped out of grad school

 Survival!

• Living the Dream: is it possible?
  

• OMG, How Do Writers Make a Living?
  

• How to Keep Your Writing & Your Head After College
  

• Little Women -- by Debra Spark: how to create and sustain a writer's group in your neighborhood
  

• Fate of the Book (comic)
  

• Slush Pile (comic)
  

• technophobe (cartoon)
  

 Publishing:

• How to Submit Your Stuff to Magazines and fight rejection

• The Publishing Scene: this is a must-read article for all writers, explaining how corporatization and vertical consolidation of publishing houses has changed publishing since the 1990s

• Are Agents Necessary? by Steve Almond: an accomplished writer who went it alone

• Making the Reading Circuit Scene: when you're a small-press writer without a budget

 Issues:

• There's More to Publishing than Meets the Screen: who has the right to publish the e-book version of your book?

• A Better Pencil: Does hi-tech threaten literacy and our world of books?

• In Defense of the Book: the pleasures of an old-style read

 Ron's Advice Page - horror stories are welcome

• Real-live Advice on Real-life issues: send in your question or problem and I'll give you my best advice