Top 10 Storyfix Posts of 2010

It’s been a good year, ending with a great month and an even greater week.  As you may be aware by now, this site was selected to be among the Top 10 Writing blogs, as judged by readers and four of the top writing bloggers in the business.  In fact it was awarded the #1 […]

The Most Important Thing You’ll Ever Write

Maybe it’s the holidays.  Sitting around watching the kids run wild, revisiting that tray of nasty pastries, listening as you go around a room littered with torn wrapping paper to share what we’re most thankful for. Or if you were alone, wondering what that would be like. Moments like these cause a writer to take […]

Part 2: How To Write A Home Run Story in 2011

NEWSFLASH — click HERE for some exciting Storyfix news.  Thank you all for your support.  Let’s work together to make 2011 an even better year for all of us who write, and all of us who read. **** Click HERE to read Part 1 of this two-parter. Picking up with Segment 3 of this six-segment […]

How To Write A Home Run Story in 2011

Part 1… of Two We say the same thing every year right about now: this will be our year.  This, of course, meaning the fresh new year about to commence. Because, perhaps on many fronts, the departing year definitely wasn’t it. Right about now is where one of the most tried and true truths of […]

A Milestone on the Way to a Million Words

 A Guest Post by James Wilson A few months ago, I decided to quit writing.  It wasn’t the first time.  I hope it’s the last. While I wasn’t writing I had a great time.  I worked on my boat, I took music lessons, and I read books for enjoyment.  Then one day I went back […]

Your Story… On Steroids

Steroids for writers.  Hmmm… what an interesting notion. A magic pill that will make you stronger, faster, better and more successful, almost immediately. I’ve got just the ticket for you.  And it’s not even illegal, immoral or, once you let go of some old school brainwashing, controversial.  In fact, it’s not even debatable. This is […]

8 “Moments” You Absolutely Need to Deliver to Your Readers… And One That You Should Hope For

There are two contextual ways to describe a story that really works.  That kills.  But at the end of the day, readers, while experiencing both, really only care about one.  Writers, on the other hand, are obliged to care passionately about both sides of this storytelling coin, because one is the means to the other.  […]

Perfect… For What It Is

What a nebulous, crappy title for a post.  But it’s perfect for what it is.  Because what I’m about to discuss is perfectly nebulous. This will be part movie review – I prefer to think of these as story reviews – and part soap box ranting about a subtlety of the writing mindset that can […]

From Story Pantser to Story Planner: One Writer’s Journey

A guest post from Jennifer Blanchard, of Procrastinating Writers Since I was in middle school, I wanted to write a novel. A real novel. I wrote a 160-page novella when I was 13, but that didn’t count. I wanted to write a full-fledged, 300-page novel. I spent years of my life dreaming about writing this […]