2018! This is it. This is the year you will discover is your breakout year. This is the year you’re going to read those books…
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
2018! This is it. This is the year you will discover is your breakout year. This is the year you’re going to read those books…
“Most screenplays fail at the concept level.” This is something I’ve been seriously thinking about lately. There’s almost a mathematical precision to writing movies, and…
Editing. The ugly word. We’d all like to think that our first draft is perfect, and that the publisher is going to instantly write us…
Genre seems to be one of those things that fiction authors rarely think about. “It’s a book. I wrote it.” But learning how to write…
Hopefully you all saw it! The Writer’s Digest shop had a huge sale a few days ago. I was able to get several of the…
It doesn’t matter what kind of notebook you get. I like a small one (9.5X6) because that way I can carry it around with me…
Okay, in the last few days, we got the mechanical stuff set up for the novel. We’re about to really start our planning soon, but…
I’m of course always reading, studying, trying to improve. Experts tell us this is the character trait of a successful novelist and screenplay writer. It’s…
The first thing you’re going to do is get Scrivener, and then get the template. I’m probably going to try a mystery, because I’ve never…
Years ago, when I was a kid, I remember my dad going off on intro lines to books. He made a big deal about the…