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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.…

It would be fun to have a nationally syndicated newspaper column, so I could be like Mark Patinken. I mean, you could just do an…

There are times I think to myself, “nobody has the least idea how blogging works.” There’s one group that says you should NEVER write an…

Some very thought provoking articles about writers who lied. Apparently, there’s more and more people shooting themselves in the foot by going around Hollywood claiming…

A publish on demand service is not a publisher. A Hybrid publisher is still a “pay to play” situation. And I understand – they aren’t…

When you start a novel, you begin to work on selling your protagonist to the reader. They have to want to like the protagonist or…