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Removing Unnecessary Scenes from Your Novels Part 1

I was reading a book where the first chapter was literally several pages of the character getting dressed to leave. Later, we […]

Took a lot of months but I’ve finished The Lost Sciell paperback…. almost. I’ve finished with the heavy lifting. I usually publish the ebook […]

I’ve gotten a bit off the path…more than a bit. These past two years I’ve been as poor as J.K. Rowling pre-Harry […]

A couple of years ago, I was walking to the library with A Little Faster by There For Tomorrow playing on my […]

For most people, there are two types of stories – plot-driven or character-driven. Growing up, I was always told by the fiction […]

He walked out of spring and into winter. A cat as tall and wide as a house blocked his path. He should […]

“Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” — Destin Sparks When it came to storytelling, I never considered images. […]

Yesterday, I attended a writing panel at NYU. Lee Child, David Grann, R.J. Palacio and Amor Towles dropped a lot of good […]

Just realized I let life kick me off my path. I’m still publishing books and marketing them but I’ve been doing the […]

You think life can’t get any worse then life proves you very wrong. You find you don’t have the energy to do […]