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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. Novelists…

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 among…

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 tell…

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

As I got ready to write this,I suddenly heard Weird Al’s Dare to be Stupid song in my head! Publishers and producers are looking for…

I tend to be pretty wordy when I write. Other people complain they under write. So, the question is, how many words do you need?…

One thing we must understand is that story rules and structure are not set in stone. Should you have a 3 chapter set up, and…

The first time I got paid for my writing, I was dumbfounded. I had earned money from my writing! So I felt I should invest…

There’s nothing more polarized in the western world than politics. I’ve got strong political views – and I’m sure you do as well. In a…

One thing I always thought about Dramatica is it’s a sure fire way to build your story. What I found is that Dramatica forces your…