The First Step to Being an Entertaining Storyteller

What’s the first step to becoming an entertaining storyteller? In a recent ZOE Nutrition podcast, James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, suggests the key to starting a new behavior, like telling entertaining stories, is doing four things: But what’s the FIRST step? It’s mastering the art of showing up. That’s it. What does that look

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Your single biggest challenge writing novels

I’m about to put together a brand-new novel writing boot camp, but before I do that I want to know what would be most helpful to YOU. So if you want to write novels, my question to you is this… When it comes to writing novels, what’s YOUR single biggest challenge, frustration, or concern? Please

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The Little Secret that Propels So Many Blockbuster Plots

I was invited to present a master class at the 2022 StoryMakers conference in Provo, Utah. We all want to develop plots that delight readers. Maybe we have ideas for the characters. Maybe we have ideas for the setting. Maybe we even have a couple of scenes. But a novel needs 40, 50, 60 or

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