Writing a Bestselling Series, Chapter 17: A Few Lessons Learned
After I finished my first series, I still found that I had a lot to learn. As a reader, I’ve always enjoyed long books. I
After I finished my first series, I still found that I had a lot to learn. As a reader, I’ve always enjoyed long books. I
When I opened the Runelords series, I knew that I didn’t want one of those endless book series that just kept stringing the reader
Most writers kill their own careers. For decades now I’ve studied promising new writers, and sometimes after a writer makes a great debut, a few
There are all kinds of fantasy novels. If you’re a genre writer, the first one that you might think of is Sword and Sorcery, or
From the time that I was a teen, I’d wanted to write a fantasy series. In fact, my first two attempts at fiction writing were
Most editors will warn you against writing too many dream sequences. The problems in writing about dreams are multitudinous. Very often, a new author will
I wrote my million words of crap blissfully unaware of the “rules.” [My novella] was the first piece of writing I actually submitted to a
One book that I frequently recommend for writers is Orson Scott Card’s Characters and Viewpoint. I do it for a number of reasons. First, Scott
Many authors, when they “get serious” about writing, discover that their attitude will suck all of the fun out of their work, and it shows
Today’s writing tip comes from Alex Bloom, the founder of Script Reader Pro, a screenplay consultancy and blog based in Los Angeles dedicated to helping aspiring
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