Half Off Writing Boot Camps ~ South Lake Tahoe, California
For the last five years, I’ve been teaching writing retreats in gorgeous South Lake Tahoe, CA. And each year I…
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Scene Mastery Boot Camp ~ Nevada City, California
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing information about the 2019 writing boot camps. My co-instructor, Catharine Bramkamp, and…
Getting the Big Picture Across in Your Scenes
Today’s post is a reprint from one I published two years ago. It bears repeating! Writing scenes can be daunting,…
How to Hook Readers and Reel Them into Your Scenes
We toss around the word hook when we talk about stories. What’s the hook? we ask. Sometimes we’re talking about the…
Keys to Moving Your Plot Forward
I tell writers often they are failing to “advance their plot.” What does that mean, and why does it matter?…
Start the New Year with a Comprehensive Scene Outline
I wrote this post a year ago, and since I did this series on scene outlines, I’ve had dozens of…
8 Steps to a Perfect Scene
I’m sharing a guest post I wrote some months back for Jerry Jenkins (Here’s the link to the original post,…
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….
6 Cinematic Techniques You Can Apply to Your Novel Right Now
Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The style, technique, and methods used in film…
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