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Thoughts on NaNoWriMo

It wasn’t as prevalent this year as the previous year. Last year wasn’t even as prevalent as 2018. But writers are still being inundated with…

July Update

Okay, I’ve done the impossible. I’ve edited down a 210,000 word epic first novel to a manageable 94,000 words. Still some major problems – I’ve…

Faith Based Fiction and the Question of Violence

I have never kept it a secret that I’m a faith based writer. I write stories that thrill me as a fiction reader – and…

Quick Update

In the middle of everything else going on, I’ve been dealing with a number of things that kept me from writing for almost two months.…

The Importance of Tracking Your Editing Process

What gets scheduled gets done. That was a truth I read in Michael Hyatt’s book “your best year ever.” I’ll say the year I read…

How to Know if Your Scene is Right?

One of the most confusing writing tips I’d heard in the beginning was this: “Does the scene move the plot forward?” I had no idea…

Organization and the Novelist

If I was teaching a college course for credit, I might be interested in teaching a semester and calling it “Organization and the Novelist.” One…

Lessons Learned from a Short Story

What did you learn from your reading of “The Island”? The first thing you should notice is this – raw draft (or first draft) writings…

Successful Keys To Write a Short Story

Let’s write a short story. To write a short story has challenges – you have to get into the action right away. Your target framework…