I bet the average book reader wonders if authors sit around and pontificate upon the motives and back stories of their characters. The answer is,…
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
I bet the average book reader wonders if authors sit around and pontificate upon the motives and back stories of their characters. The answer is,…
I haven’t officially made a study of archetypes. What this is, is – heros. Your hero character. Let’s analyze some. Jack Ryan (Clancy) – unwilling…
Years ago, I came up with a concept for a novel where a group of people wake up, and find most of civilization just… gone.…
Two of my books I was hampered with by the face that book Number Two was so good. Book three I hated, until about 90%…
When I was writing my first novel, I had to pick a location. I was tempted to place it in Ontario. But I realized quickly,…
Check last Thursday for the first half of this… This was a scene I couldn’t fit into my story. What I didn’t tell you last…
Part of the back story of my fiction series is a fictional group of people that form a shadow government. They’re run by a group…
From my first book… Rolf. Rolf Offenstath sat down wearily in the wreckage of what used to be a house, he guessed. He’d never lived…
If you read yesterday, you got a brief introduction to how many writers used to write, and my old process. Until recently, I would open…