20
MAR
2016
Lessons learned from Twitter pitch events
If you've been following me on twitter, or if you noticed my twitter feed to the right of this page (no, I'm not trying to…
If you've been following me on twitter, or if you noticed my twitter feed to the right of this page (no, I'm not trying to…
This is going to be a longer then my usual posts. As I mentioned before, I chose to write The Darkening from a deep point…
In the midst of a heat wave, with temperatures expected to remain high throughout the following week, I find my motivation waning, and as a result…
Some of you (if not all of you) have at one point or another submitted a story to a magazine. Those more experienced may have…
I don't know about you, but I have (or had, until recently) little knowledge of what happens AFTER an agent says yes to a manuscript,…
Today's post deals with another way to structure a story and it's called 7 Point Story System. According to writer Dan Wells, who made a…
Dialogue has been one of the hardest things I have to tackle when I write. When I first started writing, I read somewhere that dialogue…
Ever since I said to myself "you're about to finish the draft, Chris" the process has slowed to a near stop. Well, not really to…
For the past two weeks, my mind has been all over the place and I have found it very difficult to focus and reach my…
When I first started writing I thought very little about the importance of characters in a story. All I cared about was the story, the…
Ever since I started writing (granted, it's not that long) I found it easier to break my work down into scenes and work my stories…
One of the most important advice I ever got in the past year and a half that I've been writing, was about "filter words". Filter…