You’ve started your novel with NaNoWriMo. Hurrah and congrats! But maybe on some days you lose your focus and don’t know what to write next. If you haven’t planned your novel ahead of time,...
Have you ever changed your mind about something substantial? If you ever shifted your opinion, why did you? And how did that decision shift your world view or how you lived your life?
This week I’ve been discussing story structure with my classes and it started me thinking about how the steps of the Hero’s Journey might look if I were to try and trace those steps through my own life.
Welcome to the weekly series on artist entrepreneurship. Today we focus on writers specifically and on an important tool for your empowerment, a topic of literary law — fair use — from our monthly...
Let’s welcome back Catharine Bramkamp as she shares with us “The Journey is the Story.” Enjoy! While teaching Scene and Plot Boot Camp with CS Lakin…
If you want to stretch and write your first novel, or finish a manuscript that’s been sitting around, NaNoWriMo is a great excuse and laboratory to take action. And it starts today! If you’re...
The third in a series on the Strange and Confusing Road to Getting Published series by Keri Kruspe: “To Be (wide) or Not to Be (wide)…That is the Question.” Enjoy!
Writing a novel can be a chaotic, messy process. What if your writing software helped you surf your creative process, instead of make you crazy? What if you had a personal organizational superhero for...
I’d love your input on what topics to cover on Writer’s Fun Zone. Post in the comments and let me know. To help you, here’s a list of topics I’ve covered:
Writers across the globe are jotting down plot ideas and character notes. In this post, I’m going to introduce you to three tools you can use for planning your novel
Everyone loved The Indie Novelist Summit so much that my friend Brian Berni is bringing it back for FREE for a limited time — 24 hours. (Over 2,000 people signed up! Lots of people...
Well, first things first. You gotta know where you’ve been to know where you’re going. So let’s see what have I accomplished to have my trilogy published?
I’m excited to present a special webinar training for fiction writers by Scrivener expert, friend, and fellow novelist, Vanessa Kier. In her own words: You’re looking for a better way to write your novel....
Getting backstory right is difficult. Authors want readers to understand what made their characters into the people they are, but the usual backstory techniques.
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