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Your Own Writing Phrase Book . . . or why it's good to steal from better writers!
I try to always keep a notebook by my side whenever I'm reading, and I suggest you should too. Because you never know when you're go...
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No other genre in all of fiction requires more crafty planning and cunning editing backtracking than the murder mystery. Pantsing here doesn...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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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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...
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If you can’t pare your entire story down into one simple statement then you don’t understand what your story is really about. More importan...
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Anglo-Saxon words derive from the languages spoken by Germanic settlers arriving in England from the fifth century. Latinate words derive fr...
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It's common practice for writers to begin their story world and all it entails with protagonist design: how tall or short they are, ho...