I've been falling behind on my reading and thought I'd try something new. Weeks (months?!) ago I swore I would read "The Gir...

Lately I’ve been thinking about the importance of finding beta readers, readers who are right for you.  For the most part I’ve had w...

It’s said that, at the end of life, what haunts us ISN’T the things we did but the things we didn’t do.  We can’t do everything in t...

Today I want to do something different. I’ve just finished a five part series on the structure of genre stories and want to turn to ...

This is the final post in my series on the Three Act Structure for genre stories. Yes! (I always get a bit excited when I write the l...

Today I continue my series on the Three Act Structure for genre stories.  First post: A Story Structure in Three Acts Second po...

For the past two posts I’ve been stepping through what I’m calling The Three Act Structure. (Which is slightly misleading since there...

In my Last post , I examined Act One of the three act structure. Today, let’s look at Act Two. But, before we get to that, please kee...

I’ve just finished a string of posts on the topic of critical reading ( Writing A Critique: Reading Critically ). While I was writing...

The Critique To recap: There are two parts or stages to writing a critique. The first part—what I’ve been talking about the past ...