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Five Links Friday 11/23/18

November 23, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles about writing I read this week.

Back with another edition of Five Links Friday! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and will use the rest of the weekend to get caught up on your NaNoWriMo. (On a side note, I used to use this weekend for an annual November Nethack Tournament, but the site hosting it has gone down. […]

Hitting the target: Finding your audience (and the big mistake I made)

November 20, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Occasionally people will ask how my novel is selling. A personal question, I know, but the answer is always the same: “Well, I’ve still got a day job so that should tell you what you need to know.” But in all seriousness, I know very few writers who are ecstatic about their sales, and even […]

Podcast Episode 71 – Relationship Between Character and Plot

November 17, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at the relationship between the characters and the story. If you have a plot, but no characters, is it really a plot? Is it easier to start with the characters, or start with the story?

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at the relationship between the characters and the story. If you have a plot, but no characters, is it really a plot? Is it easier to start with the characters, or start with the story? Click the link below to […]

Five Links Friday 11/16/18

November 16, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week.

Hey, we’re back yet again for Five Links Friday. I’ve got to start off with a quick apology for the site. We had some technical problems and were down for a few days, so the time I would have spent on a new post or two, including preparing the latest podcast, was spent with my […]

Five Links Friday 11/9/18

November 9, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week.

Hey, we’re back with another edition of Five Links Friday. I kind of forgot to put any new content on the blog between this week and last week, so thanks for returning 🙂  Enjoy the links, and enjoy the weekend! 1. Since I’m working on a fantasy trilogy, I found this article on How to […]

Five Links Friday 11/2/18

November 2, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week

And just like that, it’s the first Friday of November. This year is going WAY too fast, and it’s almost a little depressing. But fear not! We’ve still got two solid month of writing left in 2018, right? And for those of you doing NaNoWriMo, you still have time to get a book written this […]

Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

Happy Halloween from WriteGoodBooks.com!

  Hey it’s Halloween and we’ve got some great posts to share. First off, here’s the winning entry at the Theme of Absence Halloween Horror Flash Fiction Contest, The Empty by Joachim Heijnderman. Check it out, and I hope it scares you as much as it scared me! Next up, we’re posting the top two […]

Five Links Friday 10/26/18 (Halloween Edition)

October 26, 2018 By: Jason Bougger

The best horror-related articles about writing I read this week.

A little late with this post, but we were at the pumpkin patch with the kids and it’s been an awesome and busy day. So here we are with the final Five Links Friday of the month. And it’s a horror theme, of course. Enjoy! 1. Let’s start off with not an article, but a […]

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