A Look into the World of One Novelist
This is a movie short about 15 minutes long. It’s a bit scary but very well done:
This is a movie short about 15 minutes long. It’s a bit scary but very well done:
In a few short weeks the hysteria that is NanoWriMo (Nano for short) will begin. If you are unfamiliar with Nano, it is an online challenge that comes around only once a year, in November. Participants get crazy and work on one project every day for the whole month with the expressed purpose of completing…
When you go about your daily activities what does the voice in the back of your head tell you? Does it tell you how beautiful you are, how wonderful an organizer you are or that you really know how to communicate with people? Likely not. Our little voices with the harsh words can actually be…
Writer’s Block. It is a phrase that strikes fear in the hearts of writers everywhere. The day the muse calls in sick. At some point, every writer deals with it: the blank page, not knowing what to write next or where the story is going. It’s Easier than You Think Here are ten quick tips…
Do you have an ideal reader? You know the one reader that you think about as you are sculpting your prose; that reader who is sitting on your shoulder as you look for the proper way to turn a phrase, or escalate a series of events? This idea has come and gone throughout my writing…
If a goddess walked the earth today I am more than positive she would look like Nigella Lawson. Tall, curvaceous, long black hair, creamy skin and a British accent. Nigella is the embodiment of these things and she can cook too. Ten years ago someone like Nigella wouldn’t have graced the regional television screens, never…
With the hundreds of thousands of books that are published each year, it is essential for a writer to use every tool in his arsenal to make his book stand out and be read. Putting aside (for the moment) the basic tools of plot, characterization, setting and dialogue, I would like to take a look…