Writers

In which the author offers up his humble insights into writing stories people will love

The 3 Things You Must Learn to Write Killer Stories

Introduction: How to avoid wandering around in the bushes for 10 years

Thing 1: What Stories Do

• Lesson 1: Lipstick
• Lesson 2: Getting Specific
• Lesson 3: My Big 7
• More coming

Thing 2: How Stories Do What They Do

Or you could say the parts of story and the principles of how they work to affect readers.

• Lesson 1: Rules vs. Objectives
• Lesson 2: Emotion Process
• Lesson 3: The 4 Parts
• Setting
• Character
• Problems
• Plots
• Structure
• Beginnings
• Endings
• Text and clarity
• Belief
• More coming

Thing 3: The Creative Process

• Lesson 1: The Creative Process
• Lesson 2: Step 1 of The Creative Process: Capture the Zing
• Resource: Zing Hunting Methods
• Lesson 5: Spiderman, Peter Parker, and the Gift of Writer’s Block
• Lesson 6: The Writer’s Trance & The Four Trance Breakers
• More coming
  

How to Learn this Art

• Lesson 1: The 4 Basic Things You’ll Do
• Lesson 2: Learning from Pros
• More coming

Finding Your Audience (and getting paid)

• Lesson 1: Getting an editor and agent
• More coming