The 80/20 Rule And Novelists
I got interested in the 80/20 rule more than 10 years ago, when Amazon added a feature to their Author…
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I got interested in the 80/20 rule more than 10 years ago, when Amazon added a feature to their Author…
You might have heard that a writing conference is the best place you can possibly go to make the connections…
Here’s an exercise you can do to make your current novel better: Search your manuscript for the word “as”. Remove…
This happens to almost every novelist who ever lived, and it’s probably happened to you: You wrote your novel the…
I’ve run a critique group for years and years. Every member of the group typically brings one scene to each…
Writers often ask me how to plan out a series of novels. They usually phrase the question like this: “Can…
Most novels have a few viewpoint characters and maybe a couple of dozen other characters, set in one or several…
A story is not like real life. Very often, real life feels like it has no direction. Lots of random…
I’ve been thinking lately about where ideas come from. They often seem to blip into your head out of nowhere.…
If you’re trying to sell your novel to a traditional publisher, you must learn to write a synopsis. It’s almost…