The Three Day Writing Method
After 6 books (including 3 second editions) and a few hundred magazine articles, I’ve been asked over and over...
Write A Novel in 30 Days-Two Reviews
Two books promise to teach you how to write a first draft of your novel in just 30 days. Can it really be done? I put...
Tackle a Trilogy and Triple Your Prof...
Are you a writer with big ideas? Are you always imagining epics, sweeping stories, great tales of human struggle and...
7 Steps to Developing Real People Who...
Part Four: Getting Down to Work If you’ve read the first three articles in this series (part one, part two, part...
7 Steps to Developing Real People Who...
Part Three: Let Your Characters Live Character development for fiction is an essential step in the writing process and...
The Backstory
If you have decided to write a novel, the story that exists within it extends way beyond the book itself. This...
Novel Writing: Planning A Heart-Stopp...
Part VII of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series Over the last six lessons, you’ve figured out your theme,...
Novel Writing: Interweaving Your Nove...
Part VI of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series When you’re writing a book, you want every page to drag...
Novel Writing: Dig Deeper With Your N...
Part V of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series By now, you have a solid grasp of the importance of having a...
Novel Writing: Playing Chicken With Y...
Part IV of the 8-Part BRING YOUR NOVEL TO LIFE Series And now we come to the hard bit. You’ve got your theme,...


