Searching for Entertainment-Industry Intelligence: guest post on Storyfix

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”

The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual

This is a special midweek post, not part of my regular blog series, to make a long overdue announcement—I’ve been working all summer on the sequel to The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual. I call it The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual, and I… Read more“<em>The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual</em>”

1 Big Reason I’m Not Writing You Guys a List Today

I would write you all a really cool post with a brand-new, fresh list of ways to make yourself crazy by storytelling in writing. . .but we just spent the entire Thanksgiving holiday working like fiends to get The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual finalized for publication…. Read more“1 Big Reason I’m Not Writing You Guys a List Today”

Returning from the Dead, on She Writes

It’s the week before I’m scheduled to release THE ART & CRAFT OF FICTION: A PRACTITIONER’S MANUAL in e-version, and my head is exploding. I blogged about it today on She Writes, along with an excerpt from my book, which some of you might recognize from last year as the… Read more“Returning from the Dead, on She Writes”