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Surprised By The Story

Readers often don’t know this, but writers sometimes know exactly how a story is going to go – and sometimes you write something on day…

NaNoWriMo 2018

If you’re following me on Twitter, you’ll have noticed that my entire tweet campaign is geared towards those trying to write a novel in a…

A Sure Way to Succeed in Writing

I’ve got a marketing plan. I’ve got promotional strategies. And I’ve got a current writing plan. Write five novels. Edit them. Ready them for publication.…

Writing Phase II

There comes a point where you’ve got the idea developing down to a science. I know what works for me. I’ve hit writing phase III…

Memories

Cold, crisp, windy out. I jokingly call this football weather. There was a period when I was in 4th grade, where every kid had discovered…

Writing Is Work

Some writers get into this mindset – “I want to be a published author, so I won’t have to work any more.” You want to…

Another 300 words

Cut another 300 words out of a single scene. Just to explain – my first novel has 280 scenes. If I can cut 300 words…

Editing Like Crazy

A huge moment for me. Regular readers will note that my first novel is an unwieldy mass of words, totalling 189,000 in a genre that…

Minimize Adjectives

Why were adjectives invented if we can’t use them? Writer’s learn very (adjective) early on, to minimize the use of annoying (adjective) Adjectives. Apparently, they’re…

The Incredibly Easy Beginners Guide to Nanowrimo

You’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo, but now you’re stuck. You have to write up a complete novel, and no clue how to do this, right?…