It’s about to be a new year, which means it’s time to figure out what you want and how you’re going to get it. Planning for…
People love stories that come in episodes—just ask the writers of television. But while television tends to be the most popular outlet for episodic fiction these…
When I sat on my front porch early this morning with a cup of coffee and my to-do list, I could feel the change in the…
If you’d like to give your writing career a running start, consider writing books–as in plural. You’ll be planning and outlining (or you should be prior…
If you’re a brand-new writer, you may be so excited by your first project that you enthusiastically lock yourself in your office or run away to…
This is the second part of the two-part series to help you build your own Story Bible. If you plan on writing a novel, at your…
If you plan on writing a novel, at your own pace or during NaNoWriMo, now is a good time to start pulling all your ideas together.…
Hermione Granger, Chewbacca, Samwise Gamgee. This month we explored heroes, villains, and anti-heroes. Now it’s time to give the lesser-knowns their due diligence. These characters are…
Lisbeth Salander, Deadpool, Gillian Flynn’s girls, Han Solo. Commonly known as rebels, realists, selfish, sneaky. Anti-heroes often don’t seek to uphold altruistic virtues. Multi-faceted anti-heroes abide…
Luke Skywalker, Bilbo Baggins, Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen. Heroes are the characters we look up to and admire. We elevate these individuals because they have found…