Here are a few articles I’ve written about fiction writing.
- Plotting by Elimination
- What to Do Once the Crisis is Settled
- Maintaining your Novel’s Pace-Time Continuum
- Explaining the unreliable narrator
- Formatting a short story for submission to a potential publisher
- Creating a believable world
- Developing an idea into a novel
- How to Write a 50,000 Word Novel in a Month
- Deciding on a Narrative Voice
- There is no right way to write a novel
- Six Quick Tips For Starting Your Story
- Six Quick Tips for Writing Descriptions
- Six quick ways to jump start a stalled novel
- Questions you should ask yourself when you are describing things for a story
- How Setting Influences Story
- How Good is Your Bad Guy?
- Building Better Novels Through Conflict
- 10 days of character building wrap up
- Character Bio Sheets
- Mapping out your novel’s characters
- Twelve questions that will help you create your character
- Basing characters on real people
- Building characters through adversity
- Exploring characters through their possessions
- Creating a character biography
- Building Characters by Brainstorming
- Using interviewing to create fictional characters
- Using a normal day to define your character
- Building a character from multiple perspectives
- Are Your Characters Well Spoken, or is it Just You?
- Creating a role-playing character biography