Tag: writing

The goal for NaNoWriMo is 50,000 words in 30 days – which works out to ~1,667 words per day. For those familiar with the trials and tribulations of

There’s a lot of areas where the idea of wanting to be a writer versus actually being a writer overlap. At the end of the day, wanting to be

There are four key elements we’re going to focus on. Characters. Conflict. Execution. Continuity. Those elements are linked together and depend on each other to get your story

Holiday parties can be a mixed bag, especially for writers. Yet, tis the season. You can reference a previous post called Crafting Your Writer Lie…I mean, Life for

  It could be a short story or novella. Maybe it’s a four book saga. Perhaps you favor writing epic poems. Just get the darn thing done. Knowing

During in-person sales or author signing events, you can encounter an awkward situation. However, I think it’s something that every author should keep in mind in case they ever

During my Crafting Fiction editing seminar last month, one of the writers who attended asked me this question during the Q&A session: What makes a story fail? It

In fiction, weaknesses are things to exploit. A main character might look for a villain’s weakness so he can defeat him, and vice versa. The very idea is

Planner and Pantser were terms introduced to me while participating in NaNoWriMo. They are two approaches to first draft story writing. Why Planner and Pantser? Planners are writers who

Music is one of those things that can be a great tool for your writing time. Before Spotify there was mix-tapes. Before Pandora there was the radio. However