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Month: May 2018

Writing For Emotional Response

I pretty much knew I’d made it as a writer when I wrote a scene in a novel where I cried as I wrote it.…

Resolving Contradictions in Writing Novels

I’ve read a lot of books and articles on writing. Some I agree with. Many I don’t agree at all with. I constantly hear “Don’t…

Why the Lord of the Rings Was an Amazing Success

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings were highly successful – so successful they inspired their own genre, and a horde of imitators. The…

Two Tools You Need to Know that Sharpen Your Writing Skills

Short one today. What’s the two tools you can use to sharpen your fiction writing skills? Easy. Twitter. Why? you’ve got a character limit. Novelists…

Take Away Lessons I’ve learned on Writing

Recognizing that there’s a reading public out there with definitive wants, I’d like today to speak on this.There seems to be an attitude evoked among…

Reflections on a Ninja Movie

If you’ve poked through this website, you’ll see I make the occasional reference to a Ninja movie I wrote once. It’s funny, when I tell…

The First Chapter

The first line. The first scene. The first chapter. I was paralyzed from writing in my youth when my father used to make dramatic pronouncements…

Be Different

As I got ready to write this,I suddenly heard Weird Al’s Dare to be Stupid song in my head! Publishers and producers are looking for…

Story Length

I tend to be pretty wordy when I write. Other people complain they under write. So, the question is, how many words do you need?…

Story Structure Versus Story

One thing we must understand is that story rules and structure are not set in stone. Should you have a 3 chapter set up, and…