Coming up with names for your characters is easy, right? Just to hit one of those random name generator sites like Seventh Sanctum and you’re done. Of course it’s not like that at all. A name generator site is a good first start, but what goes into picking the names of the inhabitants of your […]
Five Links Friday 12/23/16
Are you ready for Christmas? If your answer is “I was born ready,” then you’re a better man than I. Either way, take a break from the festivities and check out this week’s edition of Five Links Friday! 1. Let’s star with an older, but very relevant post from a few years ago by Leigh […]
Podcast Episode 26 – Differentiate Between Your Characters
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Scott and Jason look at how to differentiate one character from another in your fiction and how to make sure the differences matter. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in […]
Four Ways NOT Start Your Novel
It seems that every expert, agent, editor, publisher, and successful author agrees that you should never begin a novel with a prologue. I’ve personally had an agent tell me that she’ll reject a manuscript on the first word, if that word is prologue. So, yeah, there is a lot of hate out there for the […]
333 Query Letters. Every Day.
A while back, an agent I follow on Twitter said something that had me flipping my lid. She casually mentioned that she had received over 20,000 queries so far this year. That’s 20-THOUSAND. With a T. I was like, well, if she takes on, say, twenty new clients this year, I would have pretty good […]
Big Opportunities From Small Places
The internet has been a blessing to fiction writers all over the world. There are so many outlets for writers to get their work published and out for people to see that, really, any writer can find at least a small degree of success. With the self-publishing boom, and the availability of print-on-demand and ebooks, […]
The Worst Writing Advice I’ve Heard
The internet is full of good writing advice. I like to think I contribute to that at least a little bit here on this blog, but I know it’s all subjective. One person’s good advice can just as easily be another person’s bad advice. And with that in mind, here is some of the writing […]
5 Questions About Query Letters
I often talk about how rejection letters don’t usually bother me. In some sense I even view them as a minor success since each rejection reminds me that at least I have a story finished. There is a lot you can learn from short story rejections and if you view them as a tool to […]
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