Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Writing
A good read, and he says some interesting stuff, especially this part: 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. The line of dialogue...
Telling Stories
A good read, and he says some interesting stuff, especially this part: 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. The line of dialogue...
Advice from the blog of literary agent Nathan Bransford on how to write a novel: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/08/how-to-write-novel.html A nice collection of notes and tips for would-be novel writers...
Since some people love their powerpoint, I thought I’d share the following I found on how to make a writer’s step sheet using it. Enjoy! From eZinearticles.com:...
The Lego Brick effect he’s talking about is called “Masking“, and is extensively explained in Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, a book I highly recommend everyone read. I...
Care of David Ault and Fiona Thraille comes the solution to all your plotting needs! Stuck on what to write, dear friend? Never fear! The Genre Fiction...
Last night I was chatting with a friend and discussing the audiobooks conundrum mentioned earlier this week- if you give the audiobook away for free, will they...
I stumbled across this article today, it’s a collection of advice from Michael Moorcock about how one would write a book in 3 days if one had...
Here’s the formula that Lester Dent used for writing his stories that I found online. It seems to move around, so I thought I’d post it here...
An interesting article on how to be productive that I found on Io9.com tonight. http://io9.com/5457388/12-secrets-to-being-a-super+prolific-short+story-writer Although in the end the real secret is just write- lots! Rob
Something I had to struggle with when I started to write Twin Stars was the simple question of how much Science Fiction I wanted to put into...