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I’m a very big believer in planning, and in structure. Story Structure requires certain elements to keep reader interest, and ignoring that is often…

Authors sometimes write a book you just can’t do anything with. It’s broken, and it can’t be fixed. Essentially, the book can’t be changed…

When you get partway through your novel, and you reach a point where you don’t want to write it, something’s gone wrong. You turned…

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…

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…

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

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….

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…

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…

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