Hey, it’s Friday! It’s been a great week. I hope yours has been great as well. Here are the best articles I read about writing this week. 1. Let’s start with an interesting post on Emotion: Using Detachment to Create Powerful Fiction by Claire Rudy Foster. 2. For those of us writing Fantasy, here are […]
A little update on things
Hey everybody, I know it’s been a little while since my last post, but I’m back online for a bit. I’ve pretty much been putting every spare minute into the card game I’m working on, but now that I’m past the initial design phase and shifting the focus to playtesting, I’m hoping to have a […]
Come on in, 2019
Hi all. It’s been a little longer since I last posted here than I prefer, but that’s okay because I’ve got lots of good things going on 🙂 It’s my favorite day (night?) of the year so I wanted to chime in for a bit and share some of my 2019 goals. Every year my […]
For the Love of Fantasy
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 […]
Planning your novel the old fashioned way
So let’s talk about our WIPs for a minute. Well, actually, let’s talk about my WIP for a minute 😛 I’ve mentioned before that I’m trying something completely new to me, and that’s epic fantasy. It’s crazy to think that I’m working on a book that needs to be 3-5 times longer than my YA […]
Back in business (more or less…)
Hey, writers! So if you’ve poked your head into the Write Good Books Blog lately you might have noticed a few podcasts, but not a lot of anything else. Like I said in July, I was going to take a little break from blogging to catch my breath a bit and work on some other […]
Podcast Episode 67 – The “Chosen One” Trope
On this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott discuss one of the most common tropes in fantasy and science fiction: The “Chosen One”. Give it a listen to hear some of the better known examples of this trope in pop culture, as well as what the hosts don’t like about it […]
The difference between writing short stories and novels (part 2)
I started this post yesterday and it ran a little long, so now we’re back with part 2 of the difference between writing short stories and novels. While I talked a little about some of the problems I’m having with my own WIP novel(s) and the difference in motivation and time management involved in writing […]
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