When editing your book, how do you know when It’s “finished”? In the writer’s eyes, is a story ever truly finished? How do you lovingly close this project and how do you start thinking about
DON WINSLOW is the author of twenty-three acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including six New York Times bestsellers (Savages, The Kings of Cool, The Cartel, The Force, The Border and City on Fire). Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar- winning writer-director Oliver
Read any how-to book on writing and you’ll get that author’s ideas about what makes the perfect story. Pick up another guide and you might find information that contradicts what the first author told you.
Amazon All Star Author Tonya Kappes has written more than 175 southern cozy mysteries, all of which have graced numerous bestseller lists, including USA Today and Woman’s World Book Club pick twice . Best known
When reading back over that first draft what happens when you encounter that dreaded plot hole. Pin sized plot holes are one thing, and hopefully easily resolved, but what happens when you could fly a
Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has published two books on writing, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to
We’ve talked about characters, and we’ve plumbed the depths of plot, but what if the story you’re telling is actually one piece of a bigger puzzle, a series? How does editing in light of a
