The weekend is here and it’s time for another 5 Links Friday. He we go… 1. Let’s start of this week with 10 Fantasy Writing Resources from Alyssa Hollingsworth. 2. Here is some Writerly Career Advice from Donald Maass and Heather Sunseri that is worth a read. 3. “I never finish anything” Neil Hughes has […]
Writing a bedtime story with your 2-year-old
My little guy isn’t so little anymore, as he just turned six. It’s great to see him growing up and so much fun watching him learn and teach his younger siblings everything he knows about the world. But he wasn’t always a big brother. There was that small amount of time where it was just […]
Get to know your genre before it’s too late
I don’t often go outside the typical genres of fantasy, soft science, and horror, with a few notable exceptions for humor and my novel, which happened to be YA. But I decided to take my chances and try writing in a genre of which I know very little: crime. I guess I shouldn’t say I […]
Writing when your heart’s not in it
If you read this blog for any amount of time, you’ve no doubt noticed that I often struggle with the balance between writing, real life, and the job. Sometimes that even makes me cranky, stressed, or sad. 🙁 <- See the sad face to the left for graphical representation. This brings me to a night […]
Five Links Friday 6/23/17
It’s Friday! I’m back from a few days at the cabin with some nice memories and some not-so-nice sunburn. Here’s another edition of Five Links Friday for ya… 1. Let’s start with an interesting post by Noelle Sterne at Writer’s Digest with A Shocking (and Fun) Short Story Writing Technique. 2. For the new writers […]
Podcast Episode 39 – Prewriting
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason goes solo and shares some of what he has learned so far while prewriting his current work-in-progress fantasy trilogy. Relevant links: Scrivener [Download], Holy Fudgesicles Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason […]
The Reading Process I Use At My Ezine
This is part three of my impromptu series of posts about running an ezine. In the first part, I looked at what types of opening sentences I don’t like to see, and in part two I looked at the types of endings that are likely to result in a rejections. So here I would like […]
Five Type of Endings I Don’t Like to See
Since yesterday I talked about some of the ways I don’t like to see a story begin at Theme of Absence, I thought it would be a good idea to share what types of endings maybe lead to a rejection. A predictable (or cliche) twist ending I’ve written about these things before, but if you’re […]
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