As is my tradition here at the site, I like to do a special horror-related line-up on of Five Links if the day falls on a Friday the 13th. So here we are. Enjoy! 1. Originally for Halloween, but suitable here as well, here are 31 Horrifying Writing Prompts to Help You Scare the Bejesus […]
Reevaluating My Goals (Already)
So we’re only eleven days into 2017 and I’m already writing a “Hey, look at me, I’m sad and discouraged” type of post. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely my purpose in this post. After all, we don’t allow negative thoughts over here at Write Good Books. But that doesn’t mean I won’t occasionally use this […]
Write What You Know. (But what do you know?)
If there’s one saying that is repeated to new writers even more than Show, Don’t Tell, it’s got to be “Write what you know.” I had a college poetry professor that like the phrase so much he made us recite it every day as class begun. What’s kind of funny is that after all these […]
Where’s the conflict?
Three Types of conflict, plus(?) We can all remember learning about conflict in literature when we were in high school. The classic three types of conflict are: Man vs. Man. Man vs. Nature. Man vs. Self. You can also add Man vs. Society, but I would argue that that isn’t really any different than Man […]
Five Links Friday 1/6/2017
Happy Friday everybody! It’s the first weekend of the new year, so let’s make it count. Here are the latest Five Links. 1. Let’s start with 9 Tips on How to Start a Story from the editors at Reedsy.com. 2. Writing for a living is everybody’s goal, right? Here is a piece on Paying Rent […]
Podcast Episode 27 – Setting and Achieving Goals for the New Year
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott discuss the ways they set goals for the year and share a few ways to make sure they keep them. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in […]
When it’s okay to tell
While the long-standing mantra in fiction writing is show, don’t tell, are there ever times when telling is just as good as (or even better than) showing? I would argue that, yes, there are. And yesterday, in my post about showing, not telling, I even mentioned that there are a few times when telling is […]
3 Tricks to Help Show, Not Tell
Yesterday in a post about developing characters, I brought up the old adage Show, Don’t Tell. It got me thinking about it and as far as I can tell, I don’t think I’ve done a post on that topic. Since there are already posts about showing not telling on a million other sites, I thought […]
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