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 Cool Trick to Help Improve Your Revision Skills
My 7-year-old really enjoys reading. Watching him devour Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Captain Underpants, and all their sequels and spin-off makes me so proud. My favorite (and the one I’m reading with him) is the 39 Clues series. Like a lot of kids, his love of reading has him writing as well. He staples […]
Podcast Episode 76 – The Inciting Incident
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at the Inciting Incident of a story, what it is, and why it is important. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available on iTunes, Google Play, Blubrry, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, TuneIn, Overcast, YouTube, or your favorite RSS […]
Five Links Friday 4/5/19
Whoa, first Friday in April. It’s a good month so far. I sent off a couple of unpublished stories and I’m hoping to get a little more fiction written this month. We shall see….here are Five Links for ya! 1. Let’s start this week with something I know very little about: Romance. What Makes a […]
Seven Ways to Get Inside Your Character’s Head
I’ve written about bland characters in the past, but the problem of writing one-dimensional characters is still a difficult one to overcome. I was looking over a WIP the other day and I still just couldn’t make a connection with the main character. So I thought about it for a bit and decided that the […]
Five Negative Writing Thoughts (And How To Deal With Them)
How many of us hear voices in our heads? Okay, maybe not those kinds of voices, but a different kind. The kind that tries to get in the way of everything you want to do. The negative voice in your head that wants you to give up on all your dreams. We’ve all heard that […]
Five Links Friday 3/29/19
It’s Friday and I hate to sound like a broken record (is that reference even relevant anymore?), but where in the world did the time go this week? Sheesh. Where did the month go? I turned 43 and I feel like I haven’t accomplished a single thing this month yet. We’ll have to fix that…but […]
Podcast Episode 75 – Culture-based Conflict
In the 75th episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott have a discussion about culture in fiction and how it can be used for building conflict. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available on iTunes, Google Play, Blubrry, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, TuneIn, Overcast, YouTube, or your favorite RSS reader. […]
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