Story Structure
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Showcase: Learning from Your Writing Idols
Thoughts or questions? Feel free to leave a comment below. This event was original live on January 28, 2019 at 1:30pm EST.
Shiny New Ideas
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Pinterest & Other Methods of Brainstorming
You’ve spent hours dreaming up stories, imagining them as books. You’re itching to start writing, to become the next J.K. Rowling. Welcome to the honeymoon stage. This is the most magical part of the writing process. Everything is shiny and new; you have the world at your fingertips. The trouble...
3 Experiments in Memory and Imagination
How much of what you write is imagined? How much is based on memory, or - more precisely - experience? Do you know? Can you hazard a guess at the split? Is it even possible to answer the question with any hope of accuracy? This blog post explores these questions....
The Idea Vault
It was an author visit to a school in western New York. Fifth graders. Obviously an intelligent class of kids because they sat riveted and laughed at every one of my jokes. We came to the Q&A portion. One of the kids stood and read his prepared question. “Where do...
LIVE WORKSHOP: How to Identify Your Story’s Core
For this workshop, we’ll be talking about how to find your novel’s core by examining plot, narrative, and log-lines. I’ll do short talks, then release you to do writing exercises. If you want to share what you wrote, you can post them in the comments. We’ll read through and...
Shiny New Ideas
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KEYNOTE: How to Find Inspiration
How to Choose the Perfect Names for Your Characters
Confession #1: I can’t start drafting a book until I’ve chosen the perfect names for my characters. Confession #2: I don’t actually think this is such a bad thing. Names are important to me—they’re not just decoration or a convenient way to remember who’s who—and I often find that a...
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