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Conforming your Novel to Three Act Structure

This class is simple math. We’re just applying yesterday’s lesson to your novel. That’s it. Pull out your phones and access your calculator. Enter the…

Story Structure Explained

Up until now, we’ve worked on some simple writing skills – narrative, description and dialog. We haven’t gotten too deeply into any of these fields…

Last moments to decide – NaNo or Nono?

It was one year ago today I had to decide – Nano or nono? I was tempted not to do it. My wife felt it…

Fool Proof Way to Start Your Nanowrimo Project in Scrivener

Now that we’ve decided whether or not we have time to do Nano, learned that we have to plan our NaNoWriMo novel, and learned elementary…

7 Lessons to Learn About Failing NaNoWriMo

One of the most heartbreaking things I experienced in November was reading the tweets of writers who were unable to get their word counts. NaNoWriMo…

How many projects do I have in the works?

I have too many projects. I’ve said it many times, to write all the stories I’ve come up with would require a steady work output…

Self Editing

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

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…

Getting your novel off to a right start

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…

Starting your novel project in Scrivener

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…