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I’ve been reading a lot of really bad writing advice lately. I can only tell you, they must be trying to reduce competition. I couldn’t…

Sometimes (a lot of times) you get ideas for a book. You plan it, even start writing it. Then it peters out. Why? Wasn’t a…

I’d love to have bought my first five or six writing books (I don’t remember how many I bought last year – I’m still going…

One of the writer advices I keep hearing is, “Your antagonist cannot be evil for evil’s sake! Go into their history! Show the circumstances and…

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 to…

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 because…

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 somewhere.…

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 it.…

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 “Don’t…

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