Cut another 300 words out of a single scene. Just to explain – my first novel has 280 scenes. If I can cut 300 words…
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Cut another 300 words out of a single scene. Just to explain – my first novel has 280 scenes. If I can cut 300 words…
A huge moment for me. Regular readers will note that my first novel is an unwieldy mass of words, totalling 189,000 in a genre that…
Why were adjectives invented if we can’t use them? Writer’s learn very (adjective) early on, to minimize the use of annoying (adjective) Adjectives. Apparently, they’re…
You’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo, but now you’re stuck. You have to write up a complete novel, and no clue how to do this, right?…
Let’s face it. Writers hate to edit. We want to write novels. We often have a backlog, and sometimes can’t resist poking in novel number…
Here’s some random ideas to explore in the phase between writing your novel and the editing-rewriting process. Just try ten pages of each, and see…
When I wrote my first novel, I didn’t know anything about story structure, conflict, or even the three act rule. I just downloaded YWriter and…
As an experiment, let’s try taking a simple outline process, and see how to write an outline. First, come up with a bunch of ideas.…
If I were to teach writing as a college course (say, at Brown University – hint hint), I’d probably totally shock the faculty with my…
As you’ve probably guessed from my Twitter feed, I’m a big fan of “want to learn to write? write five novels.” Doing it teaches you.…