Burnout. Few words spark such dread among writers. Avoiding it, surviving it, and recovering from it are each the focus of many articles, blogs, podcasts, books, and conference classes. Still, most of us have or will find ourselves grappling with it. This struggle resembles a hiker who has fallen off an unforeseen cliff and now clings to the sheer rockface with desperate, failing fingers, unable to pull themselves up.
When you’re thinking about writing a story, you will come up with hundreds of ideas. A novel is never based on a single idea. Even a short story can’t work that way. I’ve heard people say, “I’m going to write a story about a guy who wakes up and finds a vampire sucking on his neck.
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Humans have been telling stories since we’ve had language — in fact, interesting things happen to the brains on story. Since our birth we have
Often as writers, we put a lot of our focus on the starting, climax, and middle of a story, and the denouement or falling action
Last night, a new writer who is preparing his first novel asked, “When do I begin approaching agents?” I get that question at least once
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Dave Wolverton/aka David Farland is an award-winning, International bestselling author with over fifty science fiction and fantasy novels to his credit. Farland has written for
A tagline is a single sentence that describes a film or book in a defining way. Choosing a tagline early can help you write your
Writers regularly need both scene and summary to tell a great story, but sometimes it can be difficult to discern when to use which, for
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