Hello, my name is Selah and I suffer from subplotoholism. When I get started with subplots I can’t stop. Which is probably why a project that was supposed to be one book is now planned out into five. A lot of writing instruction books and articles tell you how to […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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One of the biggest issues I’ve faced as a writer is how to get Plot and Character to work together. Today begins week two of a two week mini-series on Plot in 101 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Wrote My First Book. Next week, I’ll start talking in […]
Knowing how to write a great ending is kind of like being a good lover. While the climax is important, it’s not the only part of the process. A good lover understands the importance of foreplay and afterglow. In terms of writing, these are the parts of a great ending: […]
I’m not going to lie to you: Middles are hard. They are still hard for me, almost twenty years since I wrote my first one. And I have to admit I was kind of dreading writing this post. How am I going to tell all of you how to write […]
One of the hardest questions for novice writers to answer is: where should I start telling the story? When I first started writing books, especially using discovery writing, I tended to start in the wrong place. That is, I had a lot of pages of not much happening before the inciting incident (the point of […]
A couple of days ago I told you that three of the most useless words in a writer’s lexicon were beginning, middle and end. I’m going to backpedal slightly today and explain why that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Yesterday we learned that plot is basically a chain of linked […]