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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, right?),…

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 talk…

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 needs…

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. I’ve…

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 pants.…

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 You’ll…

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 you’re…

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 of…

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 finish…

Learning To Write

At some point in my life, I’ve always been a teacher of this and that. I used to teach music, and once had a musician…