Denise Weeks, Mystery Author

Someone remarked (recently): ~It's as though our country's systematically stripping the dictionary and the thesaurus down to a very...

Here's one of my columns from the late great FUTURES magazine. Modified a few times over the years, but still amusing. . . . (I wouldn...

I've changed directions because I got hopelessly bogged down in the YA non-fantasy I have been working on. Everyone says what they want...

For a change of pace, let's see how many of these questions people know the correct answers to. How many branches of government are the...

On FB, we were discussing whether or not to do character sheets/character questionnaires. I don't do this, because the one time I did f...

Last time, I talked about plot bolts--a way to keep your story's threads tied together. Okay, now for the PLOT NUT (nope, that's no...