Are you making money off your art? Or are you spending money to make art? When do you invest in yourself? Boundaries are important, especially

You have to edit your own work. What steps should you go through? Are beta readers a substitute for an editor? What about tools for

What would aliens actually look like? Are they carbon-based? Arsenic-based? Silicon? What about their chirality? Do they have DNA? The DRS Crew discusses.

What’s the difference between an episodic series and a saga? And what about stand-alone stories with the same characters in a series? Is it part

Your house is filled with guests. Your children are driving you nuts. Construction people are ripping your home apart. There is no safe place to

V is thinking about starting a Patreon. Paul and Terry do their best to provide advice. We’re sure chat will chime in, too…

The DRS Crew invites chat to force us to improvise plots on the fly. Prepare for insanity.

Paul, Terry, and V discuss the mixed blessing of contracts with deadlines and how to meet them.

As an artist, how do you cope when real life kicks you in the feels?

Whether they’re meant to be constructive or mean-spirited, comments and reviews can shake your confidence. How do you cope? More importantly, how can you tell