Nicholas Reicher Posts

When you start a novel, you begin to work on selling your protagonist to the reader. They have to want to like the protagonist or…

I’m doing a lot of editing lately. So, I’m currently poking at my books, trying to get something ready for publication. I’d like to get…

Too often, writers will spend lavish time writing and editing their novels. Then they turn to the important things like the query letter and the…

Agents have some different ways of looking at things than writers do. Writers caution each other, “don’t put that in your query letter – it’ll…

Novel Structure. If you want to sit down and write a book, and you get Ywriter or WriteWay, or you even are in it to…

Writers tend to get into the mindset of get idea- develop plot – write 85,000 words – rinse and repeat. The mere suggestion that your…

I’ve thought before that there needs to be serious overhauls in the publishing industry. I mean, if you have a killer first draft, then the…

I’m a big fan of Godzilla and Gamera. I mean, I spent my Saturday afternoons watching Creature Double Feature on channel 56. Then in the…

I wrote a little about this yesterday. Nancy Kress and a few other writers like to do really detailed dossiers on their characters. What their…

I for the life of me don’t know how Steven James does it. He just sits down to write a novel with almost no planning.…