Month: July 2017

What happens when you’ve got writing exhaustion? I usually hit that towards the end of a script. Let’s diagnose it first. You know you’ve got…

Really, there’s only one way a writer develops their voice. I never sat down to ask myself, what’s my writer’s voice? I just wrote. The…

When writing in my novels (temporarily on hold!), I don’t really feel the need to do a Stephen King. Stephen King often puts people he…

Now here’s the last step from what I’ve been explaining all week. Open Final Draft. Split the screen. Beat board on the right, script on…

I mentioned that once I have a beat board done, I have two more steps. The next one is an interoffice one. I open Libreoffice…

This week featured two nights of serious work on a beat board. Understand that what I’m writing comes almost a full week before you see…

Yesterday showed me the truth of something Michael Hyatt said two seminars ago. “There is no such thing on this planet as writer’s block. you…

I’ve got some odd things in my writing office. There’s a 1948 LIonel Train engine in my book case. A Lionel Scout, as a matter…

There’s a lot of people out there who use Ywriter as the free alternative to Scrivener. Ywriter is really good. I wrote my first three…

Writing is visceral. I mean, it has to feel right. And its as simple as you have that, or you don’t. I don’t know if…