When you boil a story down to its fundamentals, an ending is nothing more than a series of conflict resolutions. You might have some interesting plot twists, discoveries, and reversals, and you can affect any kind of tone you want, from light hearted banter to high seriousness, but the truth is that as an audience we are very curious to see how your story turns out.
This past weekend there has been a hullabaloo in baseball. The winners of the World Series are facing allegations of cheating—serious allegations, and various people
I’m going to call it the Apex Writer’s group. The goal of the group is simple: I want to help take you from wherever you are in your career, (whether you’re just beginning or are in your mid-career) to become an Apex Writer. An Apex Writer is one who sells books by the millions, whose books get wide advertisement, and who understands how to leverage the advertising from the film industry to make major deals before their books are even released.
As a novelist, if you’re successful enough, you’ll someday discover that you’re not just a lady who types manuscripts in a coffee shop or a
I realized that new authors need to study four major topics to becoming a bestseller:
1. The Fine Art of Storytelling
2. Writing with Style
3. Staying Inspired
4. The Business of Writing
If you write a novel set in the real world—whether it is historical or modern—you don’t have to worry so much about “creating” as “researching” your setting. But if you are writing science fiction or fantasy, you very often “create” a world from scratch. There are a couple of approaches that you can take to this.
Recently, I was reading a thriller by a bestselling author I’ve long been a fan of and I found a problem: the characters pretty much
Years ago, I had a reporter call and ask, “If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?” The only answer
This past week, I had to perform an unusual exercise. I have a couple of studios who are looking at doing a television series based
There seems to be a disconnect between authors and readers right now. Many publishers are having a hard time finding the readers. In fact, a
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