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”
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”
1 Secret Trick to Becoming a Genius Writer in One Day
UPDATE: The legendary Anne Lamott is raising donations for the Obama campaign. She and her hordes have already raised over $70,000, exceeding her original goal of $10,000 by—let’s see, that would be—seven times over. And you can join her! Please do. Never doubt that thoughtful committed citizens can change the… Read more“1 Secret Trick to Becoming a Genius Writer in One Day”
4 Tricks for Improving Your Fiction in One Day
We’re talking this month about instantaneous ways to improve craft—because, as Carrie Fisher says, “Instant gratification takes too long.” We’ve talked about 2 Tricks to Breaking Writer’s Block in One Day. And 3 Tricks to Ratcheting Tension in One Day. Now let’s talk about how you can use your own… Read more“4 Tricks for Improving Your Fiction in One Day”
3 Tricks for Ratcheting Tension in One Day
I love the idea that so much of learning to write well starts the instant you learn it. What a fabulous craft! Last week we learned 2 Tricks for Breaking Writer’s Block in One Day. Now for the rest of the month we’ll be talking about other tricks that also… Read more“3 Tricks for Ratcheting Tension in One Day”