7 essential tips to make surprisingly strong Dialog

There are certain skills a writer is supposed to master. We tend to concentrate on narrative – long, flowery descriptions that form as a…

Four Essential steps that Will Make Strong Characters

Writers often have one major shortcoming. We often skimp on character development. Yet Character development is a crucial part of writing novels, and is…

What Three Things do Successful Writers Do?

What does a writer do? Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash They write. Yes, but… write what??? This is the lesson. This ultimately is what makes a good…

Make Your Dream Novel a Reality!

I know I hit on this a lot. But my blog is just starting and I can do this. Photo by Peter Lewicki on Unsplash A lot…

Edit Later, Write Today

There’s really no way around this blog post – everyone’s going to know who I’m talking about. Jerry Jenkins has written a lot of…

Writer’s Block and Seeing your Story

We’ve talked about starting your book, setting up Scrivener, a little bit on conflict, and a little bit on planning. Now we need to…

5 Changes needed in the Publishing Industry

Years ago, I had a neighbor who paid hundreds of dollars to get one book made with her poetry in it. She literally spent…

Color Schemes and Things!

To prove my point about Michael Hyatt giving away 80% more than what he charges for… you can actually find on his blog information…