Crafting a hero isn’t as simple as one might think. New writers generally serve up a ‘hero’ too soon. HERO is a title that must be earned.
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May 31 2022
Write FAST & Furious! Outrunning “Spock Brain”
Fast drafting is when we sit down and write a book within a given amount of time. It can be as short as two weeks and I don’t recommend longer than six.
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Apr 14 2022
Fiction Filler: Bloated Writing Makes Readers Sick
Fiction filler is like fillers in food. It makes a little bit of good stuff go a lot farther, but at what cost? How much of this pink slime prose can we really get away with before readers feel ill?
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Mar 10 2022
Arc: How Characters Grow and Change Organically
Some people, when crisis hits, don’t, can’t or won’t change. Often these people die. At the least, they can put everyone around them in danger.
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Oct 29 2021
How Horror Can Improve Our Writing in ANY Genre
No matter which type of fiction we write, we can learn a lot from what horror authors do well.
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