Hey everybody, welcome back. Yesterday I did an interview for Speak Up Talk Radio. It’s now live on their Guest Interview and Author Series available here. They’ve also submitted it to iTunes. But You can also listen to it here on my […]
So what story formula do you use to create your stories? This may seem problematic to people who don’t want their stories to be formulaic, but there’s a reason that a lot of them have stood the test of time. And […]
Hello and welcome back. Today I would like to share an article that gives five tips on crafting convincing dialogue. It is available at the Writing Cooperative website here. Some of the tips include the fact that we aren’t talking heads. Have […]
Hello and welcome back. Today I am going to do a character exercise to teach you a way to flesh out the characters in your story. This is important because you want to have characters that will sound different from each other. […]
Hello and welcome back. Today I am going to do a product review of the James Scott Bell book Writing From The Middle available below. This is one of my favorite books for how to begin a story. As the name suggests […]
Hello and welcome back. Do you ever have those days when you’re feeling like the guy in the picture, pushing against an immovable object? If you tell me no, you’re either lying or you just haven’t had one yet. Trust me, one […]
Hello and welcome back. We all have memories of what happened in our formative years. These can be used for our stories. Even if the memories are painful such as being the victim of childhood bullying, the death of a loved one, […]
Hello and welcome back. Today I will do a product review of Emotion Amplifiers by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi. You can purchase the book here: In short I recommend this book. It further delves into showing character emotions as opposed to […]
Hello and welcome back. Today I would like to talk about building your momentum. Sometimes we might get stuck in writing a scene or dialogue or anything at all when we’re crafting our story. The way to smash through, jump over or […]
Hello and welcome back. Today I would like to share an article from The Daily Telegraph available here. In it the author of the book describes how when she writes fiction she writes “to and from myself.” In many ways I would […]