A Free Sample Chapter From Victoria Mixon’s new book, “The Art and Craft of Story: 2nd Practicioner’s Manual”
New Peer Review Submission from Evonne M. Biggins: “The Perfect Shade of Gray” (YA). Please honor her with your feedback. ****** Back last winter, when Larry and I were both voted Top 10 Blogs for Writers, we traded guest posts—his Self-Editing at the Story Level on my site A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, and my The […]
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. ***** […]
Guest Post: The Thing About Theme – What Are You Trying to Say?
by Jessica Flory Theme in your writing is as tricky to pin down as it is tough to implement. And yet, working in a great theme is absolutely essential to your novel. If you want to publish, that is. And, if self-publishing, if you want your work to have an impact. Dictionary Definition First of […]
Novel to Script to Screen – One Writer’s Journey
An Interview with Chuck Hustmyre, author of “House of the Rising Sun” (A little set-up from Larry here.) Admit it. You’d love to see your novel adapted and playing on the big screen. You envision opening night, you in your tux or killer heels (heck, maybe both, I don’t judge), you imagine yourself there in the dark munching popcorn […]
A Guest Post About the Discovery of Story Structure, and The Matrix
We take this quick timeout from our series on “The Help” to offer the stage to Shane Arthur, who runs a cool website called “Writing Prompts,” with a very engaging exercise called the Creative Copy Challenge.” You may want in on this: he invites people to offer ten random, interesting words, then readers respond with […]
Top Ten Tuesdays — Please Welcome Therese Walsh of Writerunboxed.com
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesdays, a series of guest blogs by winners of the “Top Ten Blogs for Writers” contest hosted at Writetodone.com. Can Editing Be Fun? Maybe. a guest post by Therese Walsh First, I want to thank Larry for having me today on his fab site. It’s great to be here! When I asked Larry what […]
Top Ten Tuesdays: Please Welcome Victoria Mixon
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesdays, a series of guest blogs by winners of the “Top Ten Blogs for Writers” contest hosted at Writetodone.com. Victoria Mixon is a seasoned professional with advice we need to hear, expertise we need to access and hope we need to internalize. She also has a book out there, well worth the time […]
“Top Ten Tuesdays” — An Interview with James Chartrand of Men With Pens
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesdays, a series featuring winners of the 2010 “Top Ten Blogs for Writers” voting hosted at Writetodone.com. Storyfix is proud to have James Chartrand of Men With Pens with us today. James is one of the best known and most successful bloggers in the freelance and fiction writing niches, and was there for me as […]
“Top Ten Tuesdays” — Please Welcome Judy Dunn of CatsEyeWriter.com
Welcome to our new feature, Top Ten Tuesdays, a series of guest blogs by winners of the “Top Ten Blogs for Writers” contest hosted at Writetodone.com Your Blog as Stage: Building a Believable Author Brand By Judy Dunn of CatsEyeWriter When I teach blogging workshops to aspiring authors, eyes always glaze over when I get to the […]
“Top Ten Tuesdays” — Please Welcome Ollin Morales
Ollin runs {Courage2Create}, one of the best writing blogs I’ve come across. Maybe that opinion is an affinity thing, because he writes (like me) with passion and encouragement and (perhaps unlike me) unflagging positive energy. I encourage you to visit his site and get pumped for the writing life. Why “Idea Scarcity” is A Big […]