By Charles Dickens Stave 5: The End of It Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his…
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
By Charles Dickens Stave 5: The End of It Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his…
By Charles Dickens Stave 4: The Last Of The Spirits The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee;…
By Charles Dickens Stave 3: The Second Of The Three Spirits Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed…
By Charles Dickens Stave 2: The First Of The Three Spirits When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could…
By Charles Dickens Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial…
“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…
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…