If you’re reading this article, I’m going to guess you’re a book lover. Few people even think about book reviews if they don’t seriously love reading books. Whether you are the voracious and gluttonous reader who finds themselves with Kindle queues a mile long, audible apps stuffed with titles, and a nightstand overflowing with hardbacks…
Writing a book is one of the most significant things you can accomplish in life. Fiction or nonfiction, a finished book gets your thoughts on the page, transforms your ideas into something more permanent, and plants the seeds of your legacy into more fertile soil than the earth inside your mind. But writing a book…
Revenge is a universal theme that can improve any book, short story, or screenplay. Because revenge is elemental to who we are as human beings, this is a genre that will always remain popular and never die. We all know that two wrongs don’t make a right, and you don’t have to be violent or…
So … what genre is it? That’s as necessary a question for us to answer in our story studio as it is for you at home. We question our genre with every story we tell, even if it goes unspoken. My darkest writing partner never has to define his genre — everyone in the studio…
If you’re a storyteller, then this page is about to become invaluable to you. Characters are the backbone of every great book, movie, or television show. Unforgettable narratives are driven by human frailty and the broken or brittle decisions that are a result of those weaknesses.
What’s your favorite line of dialogue? Let’s stick with movies, because that’s a vocabulary we can all agree on. And if you want to learn to write great dialogue, well written movies are a great place to start. So what is it, your favorite line? Don’t think too hard on it, favorite lines can change…
Writers are always looking for formulas. It’s part of our wiring. We love telling stories, so that’s rarely the hard part for us. The hardest part is knowing what to write. Maybe you’re just starting your search now, or maybe you’ve scoured the internet looking for the solution that’s right for you already. Stop looking.…
I never imagined myself as a fiction author. In fact, I never imagined myself as a writer at all. The world’s Stephen Kings are few and far between, and even a high school dropout knows that most writers are starving artists. I didn’t consider myself an artist, nor was I willing to starve. And I’m…