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Come on in, 2019

January 1, 2019 By: Jason Bougger

A look at what I have going on in the new year.

Hi all. It’s been a little longer since I last posted here than I prefer, but that’s okay because I’ve got lots of good things going on 🙂 It’s my favorite day (night?) of the year so I wanted to chime in for a bit and share some of my 2019 goals. Every year my […]

Five Links Friday 12/21/18

December 21, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The Best Articles I Read About Writing This Week

We’re back for another episode of Five Links Friday! It’s been a nice busy week and I’ve made a TON of progress on my “mystery project.” More on that later, but until then, here are the best articles I read about writing this week. 1. Have you heard about the 85k90 Writing Challenge? I think […]

Five Links Friday 12/14/2018

December 14, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week

Hey, it’s the weekend! It’s Friday! It’s Five Links Friday! Enjoy. 1. Let’s start with a post by Todd Matthews asking “Can You Find Success Writing?” Lots of good info there. 2. And here’s someone who did just that. Nat Russo shares some Lessons Learned from selling his first 1000 Books. 3. Onto the craft, […]

For the Love of Fantasy

December 12, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Here's a quick look at my love of fantasy, both as a reader and as a writer.

A while back, I wrote an post about horror and what I love about it. It’s interesting that consider horror my favorite genre because, while I do love horror movies more than just about anything, if you ask me what my favorite books are, I’d tell you The Stand by Stephen King and the Dragonlance […]

Podcast Episode 72 – Ghostwriting

December 11, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott share their thoughts on ghostwriting. If you're a ghostwriter, are you a "real" writer? Can ghostwriting help your writing career? What types of ghostwriting jobs are out there?

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott share their thoughts on ghostwriting. If you’re a ghostwriter, are you a “real” writer? Can ghostwriting help your writing career? What types of ghostwriting jobs are out there? Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available on iTunes, Google Play, Blubrry, […]

I’m Still Here (Site Updates and Things Like That)

December 10, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Sometimes other things might get in the way of writing, but even if you need to take a break, make sure you continue to use your creativity in other areas or on other projects.

So I guess I quit writing. Okay, that’s not really the most accurate way to put it, but I am taking a bit of a break from writing fiction. I suppose that’s strange, considering I took most of the summer off from blogging to work on the first large book of an epic fantasy trilogy. […]

Five Links Friday 11/30/18

November 30, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week.

Wow, it’s the last day of November. We’re going into the last month of 2018, so I hope you’re going out with a bang. I know I’ve got some big plans for December that I’ll hopefully be able to share soon. Until then, here is this week’s edition of Five Links Friday! 1. Let’s start […]

4 Questions to Ask When You Create Your Main Character

November 26, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Here are four tips in the form of questions to use when coming up with a main character for your story.

On a recent episode of the podcast, we discussed the idea of having the basics of a story planned, but no characters to move the plot. We pretty much come to the conclusion that a plot without characters isn’t actually a plot. I don’t want to rehash what we talked about in this post, but […]

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