This crazy week has finally come to an end. But here at Write Good Books, we don’t complain. We celebrate stuff. And what better stuff to celebrate than an upcoming three-day weekend? Here is some stuff to read about writing. Give it a look and then get to work! 1. Let’s start on a positive […]
Quick Tips # 2 : Introduce the main character first.
Another thing I see in Theme of Absence submissions that I really don’t like is when a story begins and you have no idea who the story is about. And by that, I’m not talking about a story where several characters are introduced and you wonder which one is the protagonist. I’m talking about those […]
Writing Convincing Dialogue
At times, writing the characters’ dialogue can be the easiest part of writing fiction. How hard can it be, after all, to have a couple of Joes sharing a drink and shooting the breeze, right? Wrong. Writing dialogue well is rarely easy, and it certainly isn’t simply about a couple of characters talking to each […]
Finding Your Creativity
This time of year, I see a lot of friends and family that I might only see once or twice a year. More often than not, my writing comes up as a conversation piece, and when it does, that question we’ve all been asked gets asked: “Where do you get your ideas?” I know a […]
Five Links Friday 12/18/15
Five Links Friday! If you made it to Star Wars last night, cool for you. I’ll be avoiding most of the internet, as I probably won’t get to a theater until an afternoon showing early next week. But that’s okay; there’s always some writing to be done. And reading. Here are five links for ya… […]
The Biggest, Ugliest Thing
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the plot of one of my WIP short stories lately. It’s one of those stories where I think the style it’s written in is pretty good, but the plot is pretty…blah. It’s a classic example of all style, no substance. Kind of like the early days […]
Five Links Friday 11/27/15
Happy Friday, ya’ll. Here is some stuff to read in between college football games. And if you don’t like football, that’s cool. Just don’t tell anyone and you’ll be fine. At least that’s the strategy that’s gotten me by for the last three or four decades. 1. For those of us who occasionally struggle with […]
5 More Awesome Quotes About Writing From The Pros
Here is a batch of some of my favorite quotes about writing (from writers) and what I like about them. It’s always great to check out stuff like this for both information and motivation 🙂 “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” – Ernest […]
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