Loglines are essential to writing movies. There are entire books and seminars about writing log lines. Recently, I got a book from Writer’s Digest where…
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Writing Your Next Blockbuster Film or Novel
Loglines are essential to writing movies. There are entire books and seminars about writing log lines. Recently, I got a book from Writer’s Digest where…
Writing a short story is vastly different from writing a novel. Many short stories literally are what it takes for me to even get warmed…
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…
Sounds good, doesn’t it? What does it take to write a novel in a month? You and I just missed it, because Nanowrimo is essentially…
It’s difficult to cut words from a novel. I wrote those words. It felt right to write them. But I have 196,000 words in my…
Character Creation sheets run the gamut from “Name Height Weight Hair Color” to “At what age did your character first drink a soda?” I’m divided…
One thing I have found out is that when you say, “They can’t teach me anything”, it is a self fulfilling prophecy. Even though I’ve…
Before you can become a writer, you must begin to be creative. Of course, it helps if you’re a creative person already. To some extent,…