It’s Friday and you know what that means? Five Links Friday! Give ’em a look. 1. Let’s start with a look at freelancing by Kirsty Stuart at Freelance Writers Online with What My Driving Instructor Taught Me About Being a Freelance Writer. 2. Here’s an interesting article from The Guarding looking at The Da Vinci Code […]
Podcast Episode 28 – Writing Pet Peeves
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at a few of the things they see in writing that just get on their nerves, as they take turns discussing their writing pet peeves. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About […]
10 Pieces of Advice for New Writers in 2017
With 2017 already 18 days (!) old, I thought I’d like to post something for some of the aspiring writers out there who may be picking up the proverbial pen for the first time this year, or maybe giving writing another chance after a long break. If you’re new at this writing thing and happened […]
Write What You Love: A Brief History of My Horror Fandom
Horror has been my favorite genre going back almost as far as I can remember. I have fond memories of being a kids and staying up late with my dad, falling asleep on the couch while we watched Elvira’s back & white classic monster movie of the week. I can barely remember what any of […]
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 […]
Five Links Friday the 13th 1/13/17
As is my tradition here at the site, I like to do a special horror-related line-up on of Five Links if the day falls on a Friday the 13th. So here we are. Enjoy! 1. Originally for Halloween, but suitable here as well, here are 31 Horrifying Writing Prompts to Help You Scare the Bejesus […]
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 […]
Write What You Know. (But what do you know?)
If there’s one saying that is repeated to new writers even more than Show, Don’t Tell, it’s got to be “Write what you know.” I had a college poetry professor that like the phrase so much he made us recite it every day as class begun. What’s kind of funny is that after all these […]
Where’s the conflict?
Three Types of conflict, plus(?) We can all remember learning about conflict in literature when we were in high school. The classic three types of conflict are: Man vs. Man. Man vs. Nature. Man vs. Self. You can also add Man vs. Society, but I would argue that that isn’t really any different than Man […]
Five Links Friday 1/6/2017
Happy Friday everybody! It’s the first weekend of the new year, so let’s make it count. Here are the latest Five Links. 1. Let’s start with 9 Tips on How to Start a Story from the editors at Reedsy.com. 2. Writing for a living is everybody’s goal, right? Here is a piece on Paying Rent […]
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