Some excellent writing tips
From Rick: This week I’m going to divert from my “Analyzing your story” series to give you s short list of some excellent writing tips I recently got from my local writer’s group. Before I get to that, I want
Read moreFrom Rick: This week I’m going to divert from my “Analyzing your story” series to give you s short list of some excellent writing tips I recently got from my local writer’s group. Before I get to that, I want
Read moreFrom Rick: Honestly, not for lack of ideas but for lack of time, I haven’t been as diligent lately in doing a blog on a weekly basis. Believe it or not, I often spend the better part of a day
Read moreFrom Rick: I’m trying to un-busy myself enough to get back on schedule of posting weekly on Mondays instead skipping a week here and there or posting on Tuesday. We’ll see how that goes. ===== In the past I’ve talked
Read moreFrom Rick: Immortal characters can be interesting and challenging for a writer to deal with in fiction. Anytime a writer decides to put an immortal character into his fiction, a number of problems and challenges will confront him. The biggest
Read moreFrom Rick: A few weeks ago, I received an email from Martin Cavanaugh of Reedsy (a UK-based site) in response to the first post in my Book Cover Design-Series 2 (the link to that post is below). BOOK COVER DESIGN-SERIES
Read moreFrom Scott: For writers of science fiction and fantasy, a special challenge arises. Unless you have specifically set the milieu for your project on the Earth, in a set time and place, you will need to create a lot of
Read moreFrom Rick: How can you design a character that is supposed to be smarter/more clever/more intelligent than the author? This question came up recently on the Forum at Silver Pen. (Readers of this blog readers who are not members of
Read moreFrom Rick: A few weeks back an author in one of the chat groups I belong to asked the question: How soon should you introduce your main character (MC)? The reason this author asked the question is that he apparently
Read moreFrom Rick: Things got a bit busy this past weekend, so I didn’t have a chance to finish my blog post. Next week’s post will be about characters: Thoughts on when/how soon to introduce your main character and some comments
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