Something’s been bugging me for a while now. It was something I could define, but couldn’t make into a concise statement. Thanks to the first minute and a half of Terminator: Dark Fate, I can now sum it up in a single statement. Too many creative ventures, especially movies and television, keep ‘shotgunning John’.
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The Exhaustive Lessons from Query Shark
I have spoken at length about Janet Reid and her Query Shark blog in the past. You can read that…
Continue reading →The Value of a Life: Noble Sacrifice
I can only speak for myself, but certain types of story annoy me. Among them are those where a group…
Continue reading →Learning From the Past
We are often told that those who refuse to learn from the past are destined to repeat it. I agree.…
Continue reading →NaNoWriMo 2016
If you’ve read this blog at all around this time of year, you’ll know that I am not a huge…
Continue reading →Universal Truths: Long Sentences
Early in my writing career, I had a really big problem. The problem is that I was excessively wordy. Don’t…
Continue reading →How to Revise Your Novel 2015
Holly Lisle is moving all of her classes over to a new sight (hollyswritingclasses.com) with way better performance software. Kicking…
Continue reading →The Write Tools: Book Seer
I know I can’t be the only person who has run into this problem. I read a book that really…
Continue reading →The Write Tools: Keep Me Out
If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you’ll know that social media isn’t something that holds my attention…
Continue reading →Unusual Food in Writing
It is often the little things that can bring a story to life. For some writers, simply pulling small references…
Continue reading →The 10/30 Rule
If you look at the number where most authors begin to break away from the flood of other writers, you…
Continue reading →Observation
Have you ever noticed how some writers have a way with characters? You read their books and somehow even the…
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