Your Premise Determines Your Characters
When I think about the many novels I’ve written, I realize I don’t always start with a plot idea. Sometimes…
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Half-Off Online Courses in July!
A few years back, I decided to create online video courses. Many writers had expressed interest in getting deep into…
Mastering the 4 Key Elements to Support Your Novel
Since we’ve been exploring masterful writing over these last few months (and will continue to do so), I want to…
Checklists Are Good for Your (Novel-Writing) Health!
Are you a “list” person? I sure am. Even though I have software programs like Sticky Notes to help me…
How You Can Avoid Making Structural Mistakes in Your Novel
I’ve spent more than three decades writing novels. And at first I had no clue what I was doing. Like…
3 Steps to Successfully Outlining Your Novel
Outlining your novel in some fashion is one of the best ways to ensure you have a solid story structure….
A Novel Is Not A Sum Total of Its Parts
This is our last post wrapping up the year’s course on The 12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction. I hope…
Revisiting the Four Primary Pillars of Novel Construction
Over the last five-plus months we’ve been exploring the four primary, essential components of novel building, which I label in…
A Journey through Theme Development
Today we’re going to wrap up our look at theme, one of the four corner pillars of novel construction. All…
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