Nearly all my characters are a hodge-podge of various people I've met through the years or a combination of favorite characters I've seen in the...
I have to respectfully disagree here. Stephen King is probably the best example I can think of where a novelist is also a short-story writer. He...
Then let this be the method to your madness eh? Don't worry or let others discourage you. You are the only one that can make you happy. Dozens of...
In writing the first draft of my novel I over-looked a glaring plot-hole. There may be more but this one stood out when I started going over each...
Question is what is evil and what is the difference between insane. We can use comparisons, i.e. Jeffery Dahmler and Pablo Escobar. Both had...
When I finished my first draft, I saved it and then did a copy/paste of each chapter and did the revision there. It made a difference because at...
The characters in my novel have a little description to them as far as physical appearances but not a lot. I left it up to the reader to envision...
Try this... open a blank document, look about your room where you're at right now and think about what you see then describe what you see, give...
It took me 7 months (Oct to May) to write 127,208 words (first draft) then another 2 months to rewrite it up to 156,889 words. Average chapter...
My screen name makes it evident what genre I'm currently writing in. At present I'm unpublished, but have a finished novel (well, okay, it still...
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