Hey, everyone! Larry Brooks is hosting me today over on Storyfix with an excerpt from The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow. Oh, boy! Do you know what SETI stands for? What the National Academy of Sciences’ Science & Entertainment Exchange… Read more“Searching for Entertainment-Industry Intelligence: guest post on Storyfix”
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Feelin’ groovy—the Katie Weiland interview
Last winter when I was trading guest posts with the other Top 10 Blogs for Writers, K.M. Weiland and I swapped posts on 5 Writing Rules Your Should Break and The 4 Most Common Mistakes Fiction Editors See. She’s been extremely busy since then, as I’ve discovered, and now she’s… Read more“<em>Feelin’ groovy</em>—the Katie Weiland interview”
Tagging
Hey, do you guys want to help me out? We’re learning about Amazon’s recommendations engine, and one of the things they use is the ‘tag’ function, which just says, “Yeah, this is what this book is about.” If you have a couple of seconds and would like to, you could… Read more“Tagging”
Interviewing Katie Wieland
K.M. Wieland is another of the Top 10 Bloggers for Writers with whom I traded guest posts last winter. She’s the author of two published novels, with two more on the way, she knows the difference between woebegone and groovy, and she talks like a pirate. Sometimes. Also, she’s back… Read more“Interviewing Katie Wieland”
The Art & Craft of Story on Nail Your Novel
Roz & I are having quite a week! While we’ve been here chatting in our co-joined studio, she’s simultaneously been over on her own blog, Nail Your Novel, talking about my new book, The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual. Now that’s what I call a gracious interview… Read more“<em>The Art & Craft of Story</em> on Nail Your Novel”
Remembering the future
—the next incarnation of the Roz Morris interviews
Roz Morris is back!—smarter, wittier, more profound than ever. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better. . .please pull up a chair and join us for the seventh (yes, one, two, three, four, five, six—the seventh!) Roz Morris interview: V: Welcome back, Roz! It’s as though you never… Read more“<em>Remembering the future</em><br>—the next incarnation of the Roz Morris interviews”
Interviewing Roz Morris
She’s baaack!. . . Roz Morris, best selling ghostwriter, owner of the popular Nail Your Novel blog, and author of Nail Your Novel: Why Writers Abandon Books and How You Can Draft, Fix and Finish With Confidence—back in my study, back in the interview chair, back in the news. This… Read more“Interviewing Roz Morris”
Story engineering—the Larry Brooks interview
You all remember Larry Brooks of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. He wrote a guest post for me, Self-Editing at the Story Level, last March. That same week, he hosted me on his site, Storyfix, with the guest post, The Bootstrapping Writer—The Secret at the Core of Competency. Larry… Read more“<em>Story engineering</em>—the Larry Brooks interview”
Interviewing Larry Brooks
To herald the launch of my second book on writing, The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual, due out September 30, I’m starting a series of new interviews with some of the most hard-working people out there in our online writing community. In this first week, I’ll be… Read more“Interviewing Larry Brooks”
Sneak previews of The Art & Craft of Story:
2nd Practitioner’s Manual
I’ve spent the month of August incognito working on my next book, The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual, an in-depth study of the Developmental Issues of plot structure and character development, with a long, luxurious discussion of storytelling. It’s scheduled to be released September 30, just in… Read more“Sneak previews of <em>The Art & Craft of Story: <br>2nd Practitioner’s Manual</em>”