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  • Paperback Version of My Book is Available on Amazon!

    Do you like eBooks? I like eBooks. Convenient and affordable. But sometimes I want that tactile sensation of a paperback in my hands and to hear the soft flutter of turning pages. If you like that, too, then I have great news. A God Walks Up to the Bar is available in paperback form on Read more

  • When You Feel Like You Don’t Have Enough Time…

    When You Feel Like You Don’t Have Enough Time…

    “Old Clock” by Davmi Pics is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Do you ever feel the crunch of time? Like your to-do list is too long to fit into the hours in the day? You feel those minutes sliding by and try to cram in as much as you can. But it just isn’t enough, and you concede Read more

  • Measure Your Writing: Fewer Words are More than Enough

    Measure Your Writing: Fewer Words are More than Enough

    Image: “Stack of Copy Paper” by Jonathan Joseph Bondhus; licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. So, you’re writing your book. You feel pretty good about it. You got your first draft done, you send it to your beta readers, and the feedback starts trickling in. You take in the criticism and start your second draft. And you Read more

  • The Rule of Three: A Strange Ingredient for Storytellers

    The Rule of Three: A Strange Ingredient for Storytellers

    Image: “Three wise monkeys” by Anderson Mancini, licensed under CC BY 2.0. What’s the most important number in the world? Let’s count. One … two … three? It’s an odd number to be fixated on. But we are. Look around you. Listen. Read. Everything comes in threes. We love things to be presented in trios. Land, sea, Read more

  • A Voice of Their Own: Crafting Your Characters

    A Voice of Their Own: Crafting Your Characters

    Stories need characters to be stories. Stories are about people. Whether they be human or otherwise isn’t the point: They are defined personalities with concrete goals that drive the plot. Even a place can become a character in the hands of an imaginative writer. Whatever shape they take, every tale needs characters to be a Read more

  • The Myth of the Easy Masterpiece

    We’ve all heard the glorious stories of the writer who dashed out a masterpiece over the course of a weekend, solicited it, and made big bucks. Or we hear about someone writing a book for kicks, posting in on Amazon, and suddenly getting offers from film studios to turn their sudden runaway success into a Read more