Input Please… Help create the First Storyfix Online Workshop
The title says it all. I don’t have a date or a timeframe planned. I don’t have a specific agenda or thematic landscape for the workshop. Yet. What I DO have is a passion for this idea, and the belief that Storyfix readers would really jump on this. Especially if you have a hand in […]
“Bait and Switch” (deconstruction): A “Criteria-Driven” Story from Square One
First… my apologies for being slow in getting this deconstruction up to full speed. I hope to pick up the pace next week. I’ve been thinking about it — a lot — and one thing keeps bubbling to the surface as I juggle parts and plot point and protagonistic proclivities. And that one thing, I’ve […]
Want to Publish, or Self-Publish? Read This Interview
Writer, editor and friend Victoria Mixon runs a great (Top 10!) website for writers, www.victoriamixon.com. Up now is an interview with another Top-10 writing blogger… someone you might know… talking about stuff you might want to read about. Think of it as some combination of comisseration, confession, encouragement and warning. Consider it today’s Storyfix content. […]
3 New Peer Review Submissions
Please honor these authors with your time and feedback. Consider it a reservation in your name on the karma train. ***** Frederick Fuller’s contemporary adult romance, “For the Heart’s Treasure.” Jason B. Reed’s adult fantasy novel, “Opposable Thumb.” J Fairfield Perry’s adult contemporary novel, “Warning: Say No or Die.” If you’d like to offer up some […]
Deconstructing “Bait and Switch”: The Double-Barbed Opening Hook
The second in a series of posts that expose and analyze the architecture of this novel. A little business first. Donna Lodge sent me a link to an interview with Kathryn Stockett (author of “The Help”), and it’s fascinating, scary and encouraging (writing often brings us a collision between those experiences). “The Help” was rejected […]
Deconstructing “Bait and Switch”: Concept and Voice
(Quick note… check out the new posting on the Peer Review Page HERE, a novel partial by J Fairfield Perry.) From Notion to Idea to Story: An Author’s Personal Account Even though I’m deconstructing my own novel this time around, my approach won’t differ (much) from that taken with other deconstructions here on Storyfix. That […]
Two New Peer Review Submissions Available
Added today: “The Findings,” by Nancy xxxxx, an excerpt from her political thriller. Added yesterday: “The Two Headed Rat“, a YA novel by B.J. Culver. Please make some time to read these submissions by two very promising authors, who will appreciate your feedback. Also added yesterday, a wonderful guest post from Lynn Dean… just scroll […]
Guest Post: Architecture or Art?
Next week we’ll be launching the deconstruction of “Bait and Switch.” Click on the links in the middle column to grab a copy on the cheap and join us for this peek into the hidden architecture of a story. To tide us over for the weekend, here’s an interesting guest post by Lynn Dean. ***** […]
Quick Peer Review Page Update
Just added: AUTHOR: Michael Moller TITLE: “God Complex” GENRE: Comic Fantasy (novel, first chapter) SYNOPSIS: After the creator of the universe becomes trapped inside an eccentric winemaker’s body, a shy winery employee must save the world from destruction by incompetence. ISSUES: This first chapter is a hook meant to foreshadow the first plot point occurring […]
Deconstruction of a Novel: “Bait and Switch”
“Bait and Switch” was published in 2004 by Signet (a Penguin-Putnam imprint) in 2004. This is what it looked like: It didn’t sell all that well, but that assessment is, of course, relative. In today’s self-publishing market, 60,000 copies would be considered a home run. But it wasn’t self-published (indeed, it was from a “Big-6” […]