“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 […]
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 […]
Find Something to Die For. And Then Live For It.
Had a killer post planned for today. All outlined in my head. Woke up early to get ‘er done. And then I went out to fetch the paper and everything changed. Life is like that sometimes. It wasn’t a headline that rocked me this morning. It was a quote inserted above the headline that read, […]
The Writing Tip That Changed My Life
As I sit here and pound on my new ebook, “101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters,” there’s one tip that haunts me, and has for the last three decades (yeah, I’m that old). It was a milestone and a perspective that changed everything, and a reminder that sometimes the little things we offer […]
Drumroll… Introducing The Six Core Competencies of Successful Storytelling
Okay, maybe not so much with the drumroll… there are thousands of writers from workshops I’ve taught around the country who have heard me stump this speech like an evangelist. There’s really nothing new under the sun when it comes to writing, it is what it is. But there are a multitude of ways to […]