“101 Tips” Preview: Tip #79 — Five Moments in Your Story You Must Understand Before You Can Write Something Saleable
If you’ve just arrived from MenWithPens, welcome. If not, check out my guest blog on that terrific writing site, run by a guy I really respect. And now for today’s Story Fix … No matter how you go about writing your novel or screenplay, there are a lot of things you’ll need to know about […]
Raise Your Writing Bar. Then Belly Up.
Check out my guest post today on www.WriteToDone.com. And if you’ve come here from there… welcome! Today’s post is from my new ebook, “101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters.” Coming soon. Like, in a week or so. Tip #28: Raise Your Writing Bar. Then Belly Up. Stories can be like love affairs. In the […]
Why You Need to Break the Writing Process Down
Check out my guest post today on www.WriteToDone.com. And if you’ve come here from there… welcome! I think all teachings about writing are good. Wonderful, in fact. Taken as a whole, the body of knowledge kicking around out there is astounding, and because there are so many views on so many of the variables that […]
Reprise: What Are My Odds of Getting Published?
Before we get into that… I’d like to invite you all to visit “Conquer All Obstacles,” a wonderful website created by a writer’s writer and promotions expert, Jo-Anne Vandermeulen. She was gracious enough to allow me to guest blog on her site yesterday (Thursday, July 2) and I hope you’ll visit and see what this […]
Story: Coming to an “Arena” near you.
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming ebook, “101 Slightly Unpredicatable Tips for Novelist and Screenwriters.” Tip #51: Understand the potential of an “arena” story. Which begs the question, what’s an arena story? Something about a hockey game? Answer: yeah, that could work. Arena is the embodiment of the old cliché: write what you […]