“Great Stories Don’t Write Themselves” – a working author’s review
You sort of expect the author of a book to talk about it on their website. I’m quite aware of the short rope in doing
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Your NaNoWriMo Treasure Chest
Pretty much everything and anything you need to know to empower your NaNoWriMo experience. Specifically, today I’m linking you to a roster of 32 NaNoWriMo
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Welcome to the new bright and shiny Storyfix.com!
If you’re reading this via email, then I invite you to CLICK THROUGH to the site and check out the new paint job and some
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Is Your Premise Strong Enough? Are you sure?
This will help you answer this critical question. But first, it’s helpful — to your story, and your learning curve, and thus, your career trajectory
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Storyfix: What’s here… what’s new… what’s next.
That last one is a question I’d like your help in answering. Use the comment section below to tell me what you’d like to see
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When Your Premise Paints You Into a Corner — Part 19 of the GSDWT series.
Sadly, you have no one to blame but yourself. Happily, there is wisdom that can keep you away from that edge. Let’s go back to
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 18
The Two Forms — and Applications — of Premise In the last entry in this series (Part 17), you were introduced to the Eight Essential
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Owning The Typo
In the post that was distributed earlier today (part 17 of the series) I misspelled the word “essencial” (rather, essential) in the subhead. Happily, I
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The Whole Ballgame: Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 17
Introducing the essential magic of PREMISE. This post might change the trajectory of your career as a novelist. It just might be the singular awareness
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 16
CBD has potential health benefits for just about anyone, including senior adults over the age of 65. But older people can often be skeptical about trying something
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 15
Today’s excerpts are from Chapter 5: Realities, Odds, and Other Inconveniences It’s true, we sometimes must kill our darlings. Evolved writers tell us that at
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 14
Today’s excerpts are from Chapter 5: Realities, Odds, and Other Inconveniences I’m assuming you want to be great at this work. Not just to blend
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 13
Be careful about your sources of writing wisdom. Laugh at their jokes, marvel at their Amazon rankings, enjoy their work and the movies made from
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 12
There is an A-list product, rather than an A-list process. I submit to you that the latter doesn’t exist. Because A-listers across the board, in
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 11
Below you will find six true statements about writing fiction today. True, that is, if your intention is to compete for readers, either via traditional
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 10
Pantsers and Planners… we’re all just bozos on this bus. (If you get this quote then you may be a social trivia genius… this is
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 9
Tips to Running a Business and Improving Your Education Every business owner has to wear a lot of different hats. For most entrepreneurs, education is a big reason for success. Yet,
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Pearls, Nuggets and Excerpts… the Series, Part 8
Straight Talk About The Long Odds… … with the assurance there exists a way to beat, or at least mitigate, those odds. According to an