Your Story – An Analogy That Can Get You Published
Someone recently told me that the posts here on Storyfix – not to mention my writing workshops – are very much a 101 proposition. Entry level. It’s boot camp, spring training, freshman creative writing. So be it. That’s not remotely a bad thing. I’d say that well over 99% of the writers out there, including […]
How To Reboot Your Novel
In my last post I gave notice that the next Storyfix entry would be about defining story architecture. So here we are. Sort of. Why? Because a few readers have expressed confusion – not so much with the comparison between architecture and structure, but with how to wrap one’s head around the term architecture in […]
The Writing Process: My Dance With the Pants
Just finishing up a new novel. One that I began by pantsing, instead of planning. That’s right… me, the Rush Limbaugh of story planning. Loud, obnoxious, and blinded by a bias that until recently prevented me from seeing the writing process for what it is. This is the story of how that happened, how it […]