A few years ago, I said “screw it,” and decided to finally take a stab at something I’ve wanted to do as long as I could remember. And that something was writing fiction. So one December a few years ago, at the urging of my lovely wife, I poured a glass of Clan MacGregor (the […]
2017 February Progress Report and March Goals
Well I’ll start with the disclaimer that February has three fewer days than January, so if I missed a goal, that can be my excuse 🙂 Ha, but on a more serious note, this month has been super busy with non-writing stuff. Among other things, we took on the task putting new flooring down on […]
Does where you write affect how you write?
Over the years as our family grew, my “writing room” stayed mostly constant, until it eventually became a bedroom for kiddie # 3 and I moved my writing desk to the basement. That didn’t last too long since the basement ended up becoming our bedroom. Now my “writing office” is usually the kitchen table (although […]
3 Reasons for Writer’s Block
The dreaded feeling of writer’s block can be lurking around every corner, ready to pounce when the poor, unsuspecting writer least expects it. Or so that’s what we’re lead to believe. In reality, writer’s block is no big deal. It’s not even a real problem. What writer’s block actually is is a symptom of a […]
Third-person problems
A while back, I did a post on some of the Pitfalls of Writing in the First person. This got me thinking about some of the problems I’ve seen in third-person narratives, both in my own fiction and in other stories I’ve read for Theme of Absence or in the recent Winter Writing Contest hosted […]
What you can learn from your abandoned stories
In a post last week, I talked about how I’m going to take a little break from novels and try to boost my writing morale by finishing a couple of short stories. I decided to work on a paranormal horror story that has been sitting in my WIP folder for…wow, for like six years. Here’s […]
Reevaluating My Goals (Already)
So we’re only eleven days into 2017 and I’m already writing a “Hey, look at me, I’m sad and discouraged” type of post. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely my purpose in this post. After all, we don’t allow negative thoughts over here at Write Good Books. But that doesn’t mean I won’t occasionally use this […]
Develop your characters by getting to know them
Shallow characters with little development can be one of the most common causes of rejections. The person on the other side of the page (whether agent, editor, or reader) wants to see that the characters are real people, with real lives, living though (and preferably influencing) the events of the story. So how do you […]
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