We’re Back! New Post: Chapters, Scenes and Parts… Oh My!
Wherein we address the question: how long should my chapters be? We’ve all been there. It’s late, the eyelids are getting heavy, you’re laying there reading and the lights are begging to go out. But the book is good, it has nothing at all do with your jonesing need to fall asleep. Like, right now. […]
Reprise: And The Nominee For Best Director in a Novel Is…
In honor of last night’s Oscars, and because I continue to sweat over the impending due-date for my Six Core Competencies manuscript (the first half), here’s a reprise of an early Storyfix post that got a lot of reader feedback. Back soon. Say what? Best director in a novel? Last night I was watching some […]
Part 2: Why It Took Me 28 Years to Write My “Latest” Novel
Click HERE to read Part 1 of this article, wherein I explain why writing this novel scared the hell out of me. Maybe even literally. The Story Behind Whisper of the Seventh Thunder Consider this for a moment. If you don’t believe any of it, then big deal, you keep writing. But I did believe, […]
Why It Took Me 28 Years to Write My “Latest” Novel
The Story Behind Whisper of the Seventh Thunder Part 1 of 2. People ask me all the time where I get my ideas. I have two answers. One is for writers, and I usually give it at my writing workshops in context to seizing a teachable moment. The other is less precise, and much longer. […]
I suck. Let me make it up to you.
Okay, maybe I don’t exactly suck. At least I hope not. But I am feeling guilty. I’m cramming on a deadline for the publisher of my forthcoming Six Core Competencies book, and because of that I’m force-feeding you some early Storyfix posts that I’m assuming the bulk of new subscribers haven’t seen. One of them […]
Reprise: The First Two Storyfix Posts. And So It Began.
“Find something worth dying for… then live for it.” Originally published here on Storyfix June 1 and 2, 2009. Writing at a professional level is much like any other pursuit in which professionals are on public display. They make it look easy. Ballers glide effortlessly through the air to slam dunk, yet the average gym […]