Do you know what a scene is? I didn’t until I’d already been writing for about a decade. A lot of writing books and courses start with the larger elements of fiction, plot, character, setting and theme. We’ll get to those in due course, but I want to start with what […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Nearly every single book about writing I have ever read has one thing in common. They all start with the assumption that the novice writer must discipline themselves to write. Here are a few quotes from books pulled at random off my shelves: “If you want to be a writer, then […]
This morning as I was trying to wrap my mind around the heap of marketing tools at my disposal in the digital age, trying to sort them into some kind of shape resembling a plan, my eyes by pure chance fell upon an email from Story Cartel. It was titled […]
Goodreads Book Giveaway Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by Selah J. Tay-Song Giveaway ends June 15, 2014. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
Check it out folks, I’m barking from the Dogpatch again this week. Click here to see me try to organize my thoughts around including information in your story: Information Management: It’s a Little Like Goldilocks.
While there’s a lot of doom and gloom these days, there are also a lot of amazing things happening in the world. One of these amazing things is that I can run a contest online inviting illustrators and designers from around the world to create my book cover. Even more […]