#FirstDraft60 – Let’s Complete a First Draft Together in 60 Days

  • August 30, 2015
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Mean Crit Partner emailed me a link to this… I plan to watch as it goes. Many kudos to Kaye Dacus for doing this… even if the color coding is minimal. 😉 #FirstDraft60 – Let’s Complete...

Writer BEWARE!

  • August 24, 2015
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KNOW YOUR ASINs… and keep an eye on them! This is a terrifying threat! Kindle Counterfeiting — A Growing Threat to Authors ...

Sticky Notes

  • August 24, 2015
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Speaking of process… This was an ad presented to me on CNN… I clicked thru out of curiosity… If you are a visual person, this may be worth a look… Definitely some good ideas that can be ...

Writing Process

  • August 24, 2015
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NOTE – This is Chuck Wendig and therefore NSFW. Don’t read if you are easily offended 😉 When I was in grad school, there were two books that changed my life within the grad school context. One wa...

20Nov

For New Kindling Members ;-)

Some thoughts… Especially for the newer members of Kindling Let me start by saying WELCOME! Congratulations on joining us and taking action. I have weekly Skype calls with MCP – Mean Crit Partner. In a...

20Oct

Economical White Board Option

I am visual, and that makes it a challenge. If you want to do a large white board, go to a big box home store or lumber yard and get a 4×8 sheet of shower inclosure stuff (I don’t remember what they ...

16Oct

The Four Steps of Criticism

Okay gang, let me share with you the painful lessons I learned over three years in grad school while working on an MFA… A little bit of background here — depending on the course load and projects in pro...

Persistance and Talent for Fiction Writers

  • August 30, 2014
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Discouraged? Some thoughts… When working as a *creative*, one of the hardest tasks is managing our individual and personal expectations… Some days we are confident, some days we are convinced we suc...

Story Rescue by Michelle Spiva with Tink Boord-Dill

  • December 4, 2013
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Michelle and I collaborated on Story Rescue — an amazing course on how to take prewritten fiction plots and make them your own. Michelle has put together such an impressive package, I decided I needed to ...

A Writer’s Cheat Sheets

  • August 24, 2013
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When in doubt, draw it out   Cheat Sheets aren’t cheating 😉 Today (probably after lunch) I have to write a long and involved scene featuring the whole town… It is the town Thanksgiving dinne...