Category: Writing Tips

The Seven Deadly Sins of Prologues—What Doesn't Work and What Does

We writers have a vast array of tools at our disposal to craft stories readers will love. But like any tool, it helps if we know how to use it properly. Theme is wonderful. It can keep us plunging a story’s depths for years when used correctly. Applied incorrectly? It just makes a story annoying …

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Three Ways to HOOK a Reader & Never Let GO

How do we sell our stories? That is the big question. It is the reason for craft classes and editing and cover design and agents and editors and all the time on social media. And while platforms and covers and algorithms do matter, there is one tried and true way to sell more books. Write …

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Description—Writer Crack & Finding the Write Balance

So, whether you use a little description, or you lay it on heavier than a Texas debutante with hairspray? These tips will help you be a master at description…

Good Things Happen to Those Who Hustle—Getting PAID to Write

There are a lot of other venues that need writers so when we free up what we think of when we hear “writer” that is going to give us a major advantage.

Wisdom from a Hollywood Producer—IT’S ALL B.S. UNTIL THE CHECK CLEARS

My close friend, author and producer Joel Eisenberg is IN PRODUCTION right now. His book series The Chronicles of Ara is being made into a television series and currently he is IN production on “Then Again with Herbie J Pilato” for Decades “—BUSY MAN—yet he took time to be here and give the real digs on what we do…which is why he is pretty epic.