“Side Effects” The True Concept

What Does Cannabinol Feel Like? CBN Effects and Side Effects There’s a lot of talk about cannabidiol (CBD) and what it can do for people. Many people use it to relieve pain, unwind from a stressful day, or start the day with better focus and concentration, and there are different options for this so learning […]

Good to Great: Nail a Better Concept To Empower Your Story

Pop quiz: what is the CONCEPT of your story? I ask this of all of my story coaching clients, right at the top.  The answers are frustratingly all over the map.  And yet, I believe it is one of the most important things a writer needs to understand about their story. The problem with both […]

“Side Effects” – a Preview of the Forthcoming Deconstruction

Two quickie personal announcements (the downside of having a not-in-service newsletter, which I’m working on resurrecting): Check out the March/April issue of Writers Digest Magazine.  Above the cover banner is the header: “The Plot Thickens: A Step-by-Step Guide to Subplots.”  Once inside you’ll find three articles on this topic, one of which is by yours […]

Deconstructing “Side Effects” — A Writer’s Movie…

… even for a novelist.   Especially if the writer is a novelist. Your assignment, should you decided to accept it, is to get your fanny to the multi-plex and invest nine bucks in your writing career… by seeing this movie. “Side Effects” was released this weekend (Feb. 9) to glowing reviews, the focus of […]

A Call for Storyfix Post Topics

Any questions?     There’s a lot to this fiction writing stuff. I try to cover it, to emphasize what I think are the sweet spots of the craft of storytelling.  Even so, certain questions keep coming up. So I’m asking YOU… what would you like to see covered here in 2013?   Anything, the […]

The Football of Story — by Art Holcomb

I know I can’t be the first person to make this connection. As I sat in agony and watched my beloved Forty-Niners won one of the most exciting football games I’ve ever seen. My whole eyes were on the game and prediction done by dream 11 prediction. How they predict each goal or for any […]

The Power of a Storytelling Model

(The following is an excerpt — it’s Chapter 1 — from “Story Engineering: Mastering the Six Core Competencies of Successful Writing” – Writers Digest Books, 2011) by Larry Brooks  You can go your whole career as a writer without someone asking you to define the essence of story.  What it means.  What it is.  What […]