The Perfect Story: Engrossing the Reader
It almost would seem to go without saying that a perfect story would be engrossing. Yet I find that rather than just enumerate the virtue,
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The Key to Making Your Book Better than the Movie
You’ve all experienced this: you went to a movie that was based on a book, and on the way out of the theater you heard the comments
Fiction
Writing a Bestselling Series, Chapter 13: Strange Reviews
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
Setting Writing Goals to Finish Your Book
For over thirty years now, I’ve been setting writing goals. As a youngster, they were often unrealistic, of course. “I’m going to write forty pages
Writing a Bestselling Series, Chapter 7: The Lifesaver
I knew that the second book in my Serpent Catch series was doomed. There were three indicators. The first was that my publisher had been
Writing a Bestselling Series, Chapter 5: Taking the Challenge
When I got my first writing contract from Bantam Books, I had two problems. One was my health. I was still fighting off my chronic
Escalating Your Story
Every story consists of a character with a problem, and deals with his attempts to resolve that problem. This happens in several phases. In phase
What’s the Rush?
I see a lot of trends in today’s literature. Perhaps the biggest one is that every writer seems to be in a rush. Many new
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Be Imaginative
Artist Zaria Forman, source: The Daily Mail I judge stories for the world’s largest fantasy and science fiction writing contest. When I’m judging, the first
