Learn One of the Most Important Aspects of Storytelling Craft… from Movie Trailers
As some of you know, I contribute (every other Monday) to the well-known writing blog The Kill Zone. In doing so, I find myself having to differentiate what I write there, versus here. It breaks down like this: because I’ve written nearly 1000 posts here at Storyfix (and in my three writing books) that focus […]
Save your marriage. Salvage your primary relationship. Get it all back. Fall in love again.
Check out this interview by Sue Coletta, about my new book. It’s a really vulnerable and intimate exchange, which might surprise you and might even shine some light on your relationship. ***** Welcome to my little side project. It’s not a novel. It’s an unflinching examination of what works, what doesn’t – and why – […]
Year-End Story Coaching Discounts
It’s a cash flow thing. My story coaching business and speaking schedule tends to slow down as the year closes. I need the work, and you may need some story coaching. That’s a win-win opportunity for us both. The biggest year-end discount, and it’s a whopper, is offered for the… Full Manuscript Read/Analysis Service […]
Coping With Trolls and the Irretrievably Lost… but Thankful for You
I’ve had a bit of a tough week. If I wasn’t the type who wants to please everyone, then the source of my temporary anxiety (a close cousin to temporary insanity, from which all sorts of bad things emerge), could be trivialized… but that’s me. So here I sit, vacillating between two extremes. Part of […]
Story Structure and the Self-Published Home Run
Andy Weir is a self-confessed geek. He is also the author of the bestseller, The Martian, the film adaptation of which is in theaters right now. He was (the tense there is important) a computer programmer by day, a science fiction fan and aspiring author by night. Weir is a guy who sweats the details […]
Writerly Observations From Paris
Nothing like three weeks in France, with the last ten days in Paris, to clear your head. That’s the theory. Fact is, though, we’re writers. So a place like Paris doesn’t clear your head, but rather, it fills it with passion and romance and, if you don’t live in New York and know the drill, […]
Published! My New Writing Book is Now Available!
At least, for ordering online in trade paperback and as Kindle and Nook editions. Bookstores are usually a little late to the party, but they may have it by now, as well. I’m guessing, though, it will be a bit down the road for them, a few days or a week or so. Which new […]
First Page Jitters… and a Model of Excellence
On Day One of any writing class you’re likely to be reminded how important your first page is. I once participated in a panel discussion with an agent who claimed he could tell if he wanted to represent a book after reading only the first page. For the record, I heartily disagreed with the veracity of […]
Bradley Cooper on Concept. Really. Sort of.
Earlier this week Bradley Cooper appeared on The Late Late Show with James Cordon. Among other things (and other guests), a topic of discussion was a new TV series premiering next month called Limitless, which Cooper produces and, we are promised, will feature him as an occasional guest star (he’s not the lead/star of program, however). […]
Story Fix: Transform Your Novel from Broken to Brilliant
Announcing the release of the Kindle edition of my new writing book… two months before the official release date. Nothing is ever precise about the “release date” of a new book. It can end up in a bookstore two weeks before the prophesied “Official Release Date,” or because of the whims of booksellers, gather dust in […]