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Podcast Episode 75 – Culture-based Conflict

March 25, 2019 By: Jason Bougger

In the 75th episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott have a discussion about culture in fiction and how it can be used for building conflict.

In the 75th episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott have a discussion about culture in fiction and how it can be used for building conflict. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available on iTunes, Google Play, Blubrry, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, TuneIn, Overcast, YouTube, or your favorite RSS reader. […]

Five Links Friday 3/22/19

March 22, 2019 By: Jason Bougger

The Best Articles I Read About Writing This Week

Okay, so I’m back after yet another tiny break from things. Sorry to kind of neglect the blog and podcast, but on the flip side, I’m making a lot of progress on some of my other projects :/  In the meantime, here are the five best articles I read about writing this week! 1. Whether […]

Five Links Friday 3/1/19

March 1, 2019 By: Jason Bougger

The Best Articles I Read About Writing This Week

Bleh, it’s already March…..wait a minute, March is like my second favorite month, so Yay! It’s already March! Heh heh. Here are five links for ya. 1. Let’s start with an insightful post by Janice Hardy on Choosing the Right Words for the Scene. 2. Write to Done has a cool infograph with 18 Famous […]

Five Links Friday 2/22/19

February 22, 2019 By: Jason Bougger

Five Links Friday - The best articles I read about writing this week

It’s a fun, snowy Friday. Hope you’re all enjoying it. Here is this week’s edition of Five Links Friday! 1. Let’s start off with week with a post by Jason Evans at the RMFW blog on why he chose to self-publish. This is pretty pertinent to me, as I’m struggling with the self-publish vs. traditional […]

Starting Points: Characters

February 5, 2019 By: Jason Bougger

In this post I give some tips on how to start writing a story by creating a character first, as well as what works and what you should avoid.

As a writer, I’m sure you’ve been asked at least once in your life “where do you get your ideas?” And if you’re anything like me, you don’t necessarily have an answer. It’s more like, you just start writing something and the ideas kind of pop in on their own. It’s almost a subconscious thing, […]

For the Love of Fantasy

December 12, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Here's a quick look at my love of fantasy, both as a reader and as a writer.

A while back, I wrote an post about horror and what I love about it. It’s interesting that consider horror my favorite genre because, while I do love horror movies more than just about anything, if you ask me what my favorite books are, I’d tell you The Stand by Stephen King and the Dragonlance […]

4 Questions to Ask When You Create Your Main Character

November 26, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Here are four tips in the form of questions to use when coming up with a main character for your story.

On a recent episode of the podcast, we discussed the idea of having the basics of a story planned, but no characters to move the plot. We pretty much come to the conclusion that a plot without characters isn’t actually a plot. I don’t want to rehash what we talked about in this post, but […]

Podcast Episode 71 – Relationship Between Character and Plot

November 17, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at the relationship between the characters and the story. If you have a plot, but no characters, is it really a plot? Is it easier to start with the characters, or start with the story?

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at the relationship between the characters and the story. If you have a plot, but no characters, is it really a plot? Is it easier to start with the characters, or start with the story? Click the link below to […]

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