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Some writers get into this mindset – “I want to be a published author, so I won’t have to work any more.” You want…

Cut another 300 words out of a single scene. Just to explain – my first novel has 280 scenes. If I can cut 300…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

If I were to teach writing as a college course (say, at Brown University – hint hint), I’d probably totally shock the faculty with…