Why I Hate Football Plots
I hate Football Plots. I hate them with the passion of a thousand suns. What are Football Plots? Football Plots are when the whole story centers around...
Reading for Better Writing
Occasionally, I get asked by students who want to write fiction what they should read to become better writers. My immediate answer to this question is always the...
Little Gou and the Crocodile Princess New Release Sale!
Little Gou’s first novel-length adventure is now available on Kindle for just 99 cents for the month of September. Grab it now while you can! The story:...
End of the Month/Camp NaNoWriMo Report
Well, July 2014 has now come and gone. How did it go for writing? Well, I dedicated myself to participating in Camp NaNoWriMo and writing 50,000 words...
Structuring Your Story
Today I came across the blog Storyfix, and author Larry Brook’s 10-part Story Structure Series. In it, Brooks lays out his take on the 4-act structure, and...
June 2014 Writing Report
A month ago I wrote a post entitled How Much Should You Write a Day, where I talked about a minimalist approach to writing where you aim...
Classic 12-Chapter Murder Mystery Formula
(Note: This has been floating around the internet for years, and I don’t know who first wrote it (if anyone does, let me know!) but it’s worth...
Helping Writers Become Authors
There are a few writers out there for whom the act of structuring and planning a novel is as much joy and fun as the writing of...
Pulp Adventure Generator
I stumbled across this the other day, and it’s just too cool not to share! Grab your 10-sided dice, because someone has turned Lester Dent’s classic Pulp...
How to Write a Murderously Good Mystery
On her excellent writer’s blog, writer Karen Woodward has written and put together a fantastic collection of articles on writing mysteries that anyone wanting to move into...