A singular Dron: September 2024

Saturday, September 28, 2024

No Article This Month . . .

RIP Marles Barkley, my beloved Rottweiler of 13 years. I'll miss you!

My beautiful baby daughter Jenna Androsac is gonna be 17 this March 30th! She's so pretty and so smart, I'm so proud of her!

Anonymous Christie . . . or the Classic 12-Chapter Murder Mystery Formula

No other genre in all of fiction requires more crafty planning and cunning editing backtracking than the murder mystery. Pantsing here doesn...
Anglo-Saxon vs. Latinate Voice . . . or How to Write with Style!

Anglo-Saxon words derive from the languages spoken by Germanic settlers arriving in England from the fifth century. Latinate words derive fr...
Titty Sprinkles . . . or How to write Erotica 101

I’ve recently ventured into the wild world of writing erotica short fiction . . . and so can you! I never expected to write erotica in any c...
Climaxing the Midpoint . . . or The Dirty Little Secret of Patterns

I’m obsessed with plot. Have been for years. I stalk it at the grocery store. See it every time I close my eyes. Watch it lovingly from afa...
Traditional vs. Self-Publishing . . . or How to Price your Ebooks and Paperbacks Part Two

This advice is for the average fiction author self-publishing through Amazon KDP; nonfiction buyers are less price-sensitive because of the ...
A Hero Goes On A Journey . . . or A Stranger Comes To Town

There is one and only one plot which exists in all of story. Not ten. Not twenty-one. ONE. Pick any play, any novel, any movie and they all...
The Master Plot Formula . . . or How to Plot the Perfect Story

I believe that every person has at least one good novel in them begging for release if only they had the time and patience and the proper a...
the 8-point story arc . . . or How To Construct Engaging Scenes

Nigel Watts wrote a little book called “Writing a Novel” as part of the Teach Yourself series of books that cover a wide variety of subject...
Irritating Pricks . . . or How to Improve Your Writing with a Single Word

WAS is a hell of a word, an irritating prick potent in its venomous strike, cunning in its assassin’s delivery, its uncouth presence a ten...
Steamy Brown Coils and Vibrating Boners . . . or Why Your Writing Sucks and How to Fix It

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” —Mark Twain. His point? Strong writing is lean writing....

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

No Article This Month . . .