Your Novel (or Short Story): How to Create Experiences for Readers
When you write a short story, or a novel, you’re trying to give your readers an experience. You want to involve them so deeply, that they’re there, right in your story. I’ve found Lisa Cron’s Wired for...
View ArticleWrite a Book: 10 Great Writing Habits For Writing Success
Writing a book takes time and energy. It becomes much easier if you develop good writing habits. Here’s a slide deck of ten habits I encourage in my writing students. Enjoy… 10 Great Writing Habits:...
View ArticleHow to Write a Short Story in 5 Steps
Want a quick and dirty way to write a short story? I cover a longer process in Fiction Fiesta, but this fast and simple process gets the job done. You can write your story in a few hours, if you like,...
View Article2 Essential Fiction Writing Tips for Great Story Beginnings
You’re writing fiction. You know that if your readers don’t read past the first couple of pages, they won’t buy your story. They certainly won’t join your mailing list or buy your next story. So, you...
View ArticlePlot Your Short Stories and Novels: Free Report
If you’re writing fiction, whether short stories or novels, you know that readers read for story. They want to be entertained. But how do you craft entertaining PLOTS? Plotting is a mystery to many...
View Article3 Fiction Tips: Write Stories Readers LOVE
Want to write stories readers LOVE? If you do, you need to make your stories satisfying. Consider your favorite story. Why do you love it, and read it again and again? I’m a huge P.G. Wodehouse fan. I...
View ArticleYour Novel (or Short Story): How to Create Experiences for Readers
When you write a short story, or a novel, you’re trying to give your readers an experience. You want to involve them so deeply, that they’re there, right in your story. I’ve found Lisa Cron’s Wired for...
View ArticleFiction Writing Tips for Beginners: Super-Easy Outlines
If you’re new to writing fiction, you may be struggling with outlines. You may even believe that you can’t create outlines – or that you don’t need to outline. You may be right. Maybe you’ll get a...
View ArticleWriting Short Stories: How Many Scenes Do You Need?
Students are having great fun with Hot, Hotter, Hottest: Write Bestselling Kindle Romances, our new romance fiction writing class. Most of the students are nonfiction writers who are dipping their toes...
View ArticleRevising Fiction: Motivation Is Everything
Revising fiction can be complicated. You change something here, and you need to follow those changes right through the novel. Revising short stories is a lot less complicated. If you remember...
View ArticleShort Story Shortcuts: Scene Therapy
Short stories are fun to write, because they’re short. However, they can also be challenging for the same reason. You’re writing to a genre, and your readers have clear expectations for that genre. You...
View ArticleFiction Tips: Kill Your Backstory
NaNoWriMo is coming up, so over the next few weeks, until November 1, let’s look at some fiction tips which will help you to write a successful novel. Not ready for NaNoWriMo? Writing fiction is huge...
View ArticleFast Fiction Secrets: Outline for Emotion
I’ve had some questions about how to write fast fiction: that is, how to write a novel or short story quickly, without ending up with a horrible mess. The answer: outline for emotion. If your story has...
View ArticlePlotting Fiction: How To Create Richer Stories
You’re writing short stories, or novels, and you want to make your fiction powerful. Plotting fiction is the key, not only to happy readers, but also to more book sales. If readers love your story,...
View ArticlePlotting Fiction: Plot And Place Sell
One of the easiest ways to improve your fiction is to think about where it happens. When you’re plotting fiction, consider your settings and locations. Your readers will thank you. Your fiction will be...
View ArticleFiction Writing Basics: Point Of View Made Simple
Let’s look at another basic fiction writing technique: point of view. Whatever you’re writing, whether it’s a short story, or a novel, the question of point of view (POV) needs to be addressed. When...
View ArticleFiction Writing Basics: Character Thoughts And Emotions
We’ve looked at emotion in our Fiction Writing Basics series, most recently in Fiction Writing Basics: Focus On EMOTION. Writing about emotions is a challenge for many writers. It’s easy to write...
View ArticlePlotting Fiction Made Easy: Character, Situation, Choices
If you find plotting fiction a challenge, let’s look at a super-easy way to do it. You start with a character in a situation, then give the character good and bad choices. Your character will follow...
View ArticleWriting Scenes In Fiction: 3 Powerful Tips
Do you love telling stories? You must do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. If you’re a new author however, chances are that scenes in fiction are a mystery to you. When do you SHOW something in...
View Article5 Super-Easy Fiction Writing Tips You Can Use Today
Want to write more fiction? You can. Let’s look at some easy fiction writing tips which will help… some of the tips may feel counter-intuitive, but they work. Write More: 5 Easy Fiction-Writing Tips To...
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