Hey, guys, I just spent the entire day trying to develop video for this blog. Guess what? That’s right. So let’s talk about how my experiment with video mimics the experience of writing fiction: It always seems like such a good idea at the time. Who has not begun a… Read more“10 Ways Writing Fiction is Like Performing for a Camera”
Tag: fiction editing
Celebrating New Year’s Day 2012
A writer falls over a cliff and is clinging helplessly to a vine while two editors crouch on the edge, shouting advice. Suddenly the writer sees the most beautiful strawberry in the world just out of reach. “Reach for it!” cries the first editor. “A perfect thing is worth the… Read more“Celebrating New Year’s Day 2012”
How to Find Joy & Fulfillment through Writing
I’m not here this month—December is my month to go offline every year and watch my son grow up. I really don’t have any time to lose. So I’ll be blogging in absentia a series of posts on how to find everything you need through the craft of writing, this… Read more“How to Find Joy & Fulfillment through Writing”
23 Inevitable Questions to Ask Yourself
at the End of NaNoWriMo
Guess what I spent the Thanksgiving holiday doing? That’s right—giving myself repetitive stress injury writing my annual 45,000-word children’s book for my son. I didn’t start until halfway through November this year, so it got pretty darn busy toward the end there. Now I have a completed book (hurrah!), but… Read more“23 Inevitable Questions to Ask Yourself <br>at the End of NaNoWriMo”
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”
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”
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>”
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”