1667 words to Write!

Okay, you did all your planning, blah blah blah (see my articles over the last six days – you are clipping these to Evernote,…

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…

Writing Your Novel 5: Conflict and Character

The essence of your story is this: Your logline. A man with a problem is having an okay life, when suddenly he something and…

Writing Novels Step 4: Save The Cat

On to step 4 of how to write novels! We’re going to talk about the Save The Cat and the 21 point template now….

Writing Novels Step 3: Planning your Novel

  Pant’sers and planners. Every writer tends to be a little along the line of a pant’ser. You’re writing by the seat of your…

Writing Novels Step 2: Setup Scrivener

After getting Scrivener registered, here’s what I suggest… go and do two searches on the internet. Free Scrivener templates Free name files for Scrivener…

Writing Novels: Step 1: Buy Scrivener

This is the essential first step. $40. That’s it. That’s all there is between you and your first book. Not $150, not $250 like…

Banishing Fear… Write your Book!

I’m kind of surprised to read that a lot of people want to write books, and just don’t. There’s apparently a very real fear…

How Long to Write A Novel?

Everyone wonders that. The answer is, “thirty days.” Nanowrimo has their yearly contest to write 50,000 words in 30 days. And hundreds of people…