So You Think You Can Write?

So You Think You Can Write?

Fear of being a bad writer is probably at the top of my list of fears. I try not to spend a lot of time on such negative thoughts, but honestly, it’s a big one for any aspiring writer, right? One of my friends went off to start a publishing company. He’s getting his...
Getting The Idea For Your Book

Getting The Idea For Your Book

I’m looking at the notes I started for the first book of my trilogy No Such Thing As Evil. They are dated March 24, 2010. The notes are just a set of words. They make little sense. That’s because I wrote them after waking from a dream. I wrote the next set of notes on...
Point of View (POV): The Omniscient Drift

Point of View (POV): The Omniscient Drift

Use immediate scenes. That was a key learning point from Sol Stein’s book as I described in my earlier post. Readers today expect books to unfold with visual scenes of action. Write like a movie script. But I took this advice too literally. I love movies. I always...