What Kind of Storyteller Are You, Anyhow?
See my guest blog today on Copyblogger.com, the Big Kahuna of all freelance writing sites. Check it out HERE. If you’ve just come from there, welcome! Kick around a while, there’s lots to experience. If you like what you see, please SUBSCRIBE. Hey, it’s FREE! Enter your email address: Follow StoryFix And now for today’s […]
3 Not-So-Secret Yet Spectacularly Effective Ways to Blow Readers Away
We’ve all heard – and I like to quote this one – that there’s nothing new under the writing sun. I’ve also come to know that if you rename something and view it from a new context it becomes startlingly fresh and powerful. Such is the case with these three little magic pills of storytelling. […]
And the Nominee for Best Director in a Novel is…
Say what? Last night I was watching some tube (my way to chill, wife by my side, ice cream bar in hand… I should be reading, I know) and I caught back-to-back season premieres on TNT, both with similar set-ups (undercover good guys scamming despicable bad guys). One sucked, the other didn’t. It got me […]
The Ugly Truth About Writer’s Block and the Beautiful Way to Kick It
Writer’s Block is like rejection — its part of the deal if you write seriously. It reminds me of the blush of new love — in the beginning there’s excitement, the world is all adrenalin and tongue hockey, you can’t focus or sleep… and then reality slaps you upside the head like a mother-in-law who’s […]
45 Questions Your Story Will Always Force You to Answer
But first… Do you Blog? See my guest post today on www.bloggingtips.com And if you’ve just arrived from there… welcome to Storyfix! Inherent to the process of writing a story is answering a certain set of critical questions. Many are intuitive – like, whodunit?… or, will they or won’t they? – but unless you address […]
“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 […]
Raise Your Writing Bar. Then Belly Up.
Check out my guest post today on www.WriteToDone.com. And if you’ve come here from there… welcome! Today’s post is from my new ebook, “101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters.” Coming soon. Like, in a week or so. Tip #28: Raise Your Writing Bar. Then Belly Up. Stories can be like love affairs. In the […]
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 […]
Reprise: What Are My Odds of Getting Published?
Before we get into that… I’d like to invite you all to visit “Conquer All Obstacles,” a wonderful website created by a writer’s writer and promotions expert, Jo-Anne Vandermeulen. She was gracious enough to allow me to guest blog on her site yesterday (Thursday, July 2) and I hope you’ll visit and see what this […]
Story: Coming to an “Arena” near you.
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming ebook, “101 Slightly Unpredicatable Tips for Novelist and Screenwriters.” Tip #51: Understand the potential of an “arena” story. Which begs the question, what’s an arena story? Something about a hockey game? Answer: yeah, that could work. Arena is the embodiment of the old cliché: write what you […]