In the past (and I mean the distant, distant past), I’ve caught myself making blanket statement like “There’s not such thing as writer’s block” or “Writer’s block isn’t a writing problem; it’s a motivation problem” or “Writer’s block is a self-imposed frame of mind. Get over it.” While there might be a grain of truth […]
Using Scrivener to “fix” my draft
I’ve talked a little about a fantasy trilogy I’m working on. It’s a lot of fun, but I keep running into difficult world-building things that get in the way of the real writing. Things like seasons, and farming, and how to measure time. (Is it okay to use a 24-hour rotation, and words like “summer” […]
Podcast Episode 43 – Setbacks for your Characters
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason plays hooky and Scott goes solo with a look at how using setbacks will strengthen both your characters and your story. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in Omaha, […]
Writing Flash Fiction Makes You A Better Writer
I was going to begin this post with the sentence “I haven’t written much flash fiction,” but I went and counted and see that I’ve published five flash fiction stories, and also have one more scheduled to be published this fall. So actually, nearly one-fourth of my published short stories have been flash fiction. I […]
When to let a project die (or at least take an extended vacation from it)
Ok, so we’ve all got those projects that give us trouble. Take me, for example. I have a novel I finished in the 2012 NaNoWriMo, that I’ve been “working on” ever since. I just can’t seem to get it right. I even pitched it at last year’s RMFW conference, knowing full well that it just […]
Three things to avoid doing while writing YA
Young Adult is one of the more consistently popular categories of genre fiction right now. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that it does well in every genre, either. And with YA novels seeming to be filling up the shelves of the nearest Barnes and Noble at an alarming rate, you may want […]
Is my attention span the problem?
I don’t know what the deal is. I write (or maybe it’s better said “work on writing stuff”) every day, but I just can’t seem to get out of a slump. I constantly feel like I’m not seeing enough progress, and no matter what I’m working on, it seems like I want to be working […]
The most used words in my novels
The other day I told someone an submission editor at a place I sent something to counted the number of “that”s on the first page and included that in the rejection now. I just remembered that I was wrong. The word he counted was “was”. And the number was 34. Even in this small post […]
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