I wrote the first draft of my first short story one snowy night over Christmas break in 2009. It was a silly little story about alien abductions from the aliens’ point of view. It was eventually published at The WiFiles under the title of Breeding Ground, and it’s worth a look if you want a […]
A Story in Two Sentences
A while back I read a really cool post at tickld.com showing 20 Terrifying Two-Sentence Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up At Night. It got me thinking…What a powerful concept. With two little sentences, you fill your reader with a sense of dread and uneasiness. And you know what’s the most interesting thing about […]
Five Links Friday 7/15/16
We’re back for another Five Links Friday! Enjoy! 1. Let’s start off with the bad guys. Here is The Ultimate Guide To Creating An Authentic Villain by Kyla Bagnall at Writer’s Edit. This is a long, great post that everyone writing genre fiction should read. 2. Here’s a very interesting article from DNAInfo looking at […]
Five Links Friday 6/10/16
Here’s one way to avoid the icky hot June weather. Stay indoors a read these posts! Happy Friday! 1. I am so bad at descriptions sometimes, and like a lot of similar writers, occasionally compensate by using too much dialogue. Sarah Baughman at Write It Sideways has some good pointers on How To Balance Dialogue and Description. […]
Podcast Episode 5: Planners and Pantsers
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Scott and Jason discuss the differences between discovery writing and outlining, and share what works and what doesn’t work for them. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in Omaha, Nebraska with his […]
Five Links Friday 2/12/16
Hey ya’ll, it’s Friday afternoon. Why not take a break and read some stuff. Here is this week’s Five Links Friday. 1. Let’s start with an interesting post from Jane Friedman’s blog. 5 Steps to Creating a Great Audiobook looks at something that has never crossed my mind, which is creating an audiobook. Totally with […]
How I Plot Fiction (or quasi-discovery write)
Plotting is one of those things that can be a lot of fun, or it can take all of the creativity out of your story and turn it into a term-paper. I really believe that the most fun you can have writing is when you are creating. It’s a great feeling to watch characters appear […]
The First Step is to Finish
The worst place you can be as an aspiring writer is to have a couple of dozen stories partially complete, but no finished first drafts. I ran into this problem a lot early on. I could spend an entire night going from story to story without ever actually finishing anything. Sure, it’s good to have […]
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