A while back, I wrote an post about horror and what I love about it. It’s interesting that consider horror my favorite genre because, while I do love horror movies more than just about anything, if you ask me what my favorite books are, I’d tell you The Stand by Stephen King and the Dragonlance […]
4 Questions to Ask When You Create Your Main Character
On a recent episode of the podcast, we discussed the idea of having the basics of a story planned, but no characters to move the plot. We pretty much come to the conclusion that a plot without characters isn’t actually a plot. I don’t want to rehash what we talked about in this post, but […]
Hitting the target: Finding your audience (and the big mistake I made)
Occasionally people will ask how my novel is selling. A personal question, I know, but the answer is always the same: “Well, I’ve still got a day job so that should tell you what you need to know.” But in all seriousness, I know very few writers who are ecstatic about their sales, and even […]
Five Reasons to Start a New Paragraph
My seven-year-old likes to write books. Sure, they are only a few pages long, but he puts a lot of work into them–stapling the pages, illustrating, and double-checking the spelling with his mom and dad. It’s so awesome to watch him develop and learn some of the absolute basics of putting together a little story. […]
NaNoWriMo Prep
Hey, writers, as October comes to a close quite there is a large community of aspiring writings out there asking “should I or shouldn’t I?”. What is that big decision they are pondering? Why NaNoWriMo of course! I’ve probably talked about NaNoWriMo a million times here, and my first novel started out as a NaNoWriMo […]
Seasonal Inspiration
All of the pros say you should never wait for inspiration; you should just get out there and get writing. And they are obviously correct. After all, they are the pros 🙂 But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be aware of times where inspiration WILL come looking for you. (It should be noted that you […]
Generative Writing and Brainstorming
Hi all! It’s a great fall evening, and I’m back from a great Nebraska Writers Guild fall conference. This year’s fall conference was especially informative and inspirational. I came back just ready to write, with a newfound passion I haven’t felt in a few years. I will probably have a lot to share about what […]
Planning your novel the old fashioned way
So let’s talk about our WIPs for a minute. Well, actually, let’s talk about my WIP for a minute 😛 I’ve mentioned before that I’m trying something completely new to me, and that’s epic fantasy. It’s crazy to think that I’m working on a book that needs to be 3-5 times longer than my YA […]
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