Fiction

Here are a few articles I’ve written about fiction writing.

1. Plotting by Elimination
2. What to Do Once the Crisis is Settled
3. Maintaining your Novel’s Pace-Time Continuum
4. Explaining the unreliable narrator
5. Formatting a short story for submission to a potential publisher
6. Creating a believable world
7. Developing an idea into a novel
8. How to Write a 50,000 Word Novel in a Month
9. Deciding on a Narrative Voice
10. There is no right way to write a novel
11. Six Quick Tips For Starting Your Story
12. Six Quick Tips for Writing Descriptions
13. Six quick ways to jump start a stalled novel
14. Questions you should ask yourself when you are describing things for a story
15. How Setting Influences Story
16. How Good is Your Bad Guy?
17. Building Better Novels Through Conflict
18. 10 days of character building wrap up
19. Character Bio Sheets
20. Mapping out your novel’s characters
21. Twelve questions that will help you create your character
22. Basing characters on real people
23. Building characters through adversity
24. Exploring characters through their possessions
25. Creating a character biography
26. Building Characters by Brainstorming
27. Using interviewing to create fictional characters
28. Using a normal day to define your character
29. Building a character from multiple perspectives
30. Are Your Characters Well Spoken, or is it Just You?
31. Creating a role-playing character biography