Category: Writing

Too Much Information. A written form of verbal diarrhea. Unnecessary detail can distract the reader from your plot and story.

While there are successful authors that have what objectively could be called excessive prose, they’re rare. And, generally, if you …

I’ve been looking at posts on Reddit’s r/Screenwriting area for a while and seeing so many fellow writers trying to understand why their brilliant scripts (who knows if that’s true, but I expect at least a number are) fail to …

First, what the heck is a prologue? It’s not trivial to define one, as I found out when asking an author friend to critique this. For the purposes of this post, I’m going to go with Wikipedia’s definition:

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This is an adaptation from a response to a beta read I just sent.  It’s about convention, and why it’s important if you want people to read, and enjoy, your story…

It’s very challenging to shed your author’s blinders when …

A critique partner (CP) is sort of like being alpha/beta reader to each other. Good ones are hard to find. I’ve only got one after trying a dozen or more times. There are a number of authors I regularly …

I’ve been told I have some facility with writing blurbs.  However, since mine tend to run long, perhaps I can only help others.  You can judge for yourself by clicking on the titles on the left-hand side of my …

What?  Backwards?

What I mean is, instead of writing a novel (or, for me now, screenplays) and then trying to condense my 70+K pile of words into 500-800 word synopsis, then a 100-150 word blurb and finally a 10-25 word …