DanFeb 15, 20181 minWriting Recommendation #5: No Cold StartsHowdy, Today I thought I'd share one of the best pieces of writing advice I think I’ve ever encountered. A couple of years ago I saw...
DanFeb 5, 20181 minWriting Recommendation #4: Listen to your Writing Howdy, I recently finished The Secrets of Story by Matt Bird. Wow. What can I say? Scads of storytelling advice fill each page. Most his...
DanJan 29, 20181 minNew Story LiveHowdy, Happy Monday! The Future of Our Prosperity is up at http://www.bewilderingstories.com/. Here's a teaser: in a dystopian future,...
DanJan 28, 20181 minWriting Recommendation #3: Emotional ThesaurusHowdy, Struggle with telling opposed to showing characters’ emotional reactions? I have. Still do, but I'm improving. In my quest to make...
DanJan 23, 20181 minWriting Recommendation #2: Avoid Talking HeadsHowdy, What's worse than a character or characters spewing huge blocks of dialogue without any intervening action? Pages and pages and...
DanJan 19, 20181 min Writing Recommendation #1: VoiceHowdy, Since you're here, you're probably an aspiring author, just like me. This is the first post in a series recommending books that...
