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The latest issue of The Secrets newsletter is up and available for subscribers. In this issue I go through all the parameters of how to create a likable character—someone the readers warm to fairly quickly and consistently. It’s one of the toughest things to do in fiction, and writers always run the risk of becoming […]

I actually got 3,100 words written today before heading off to do other tasks. It’s another issue of The Secrets. Those end up amounting to around 75,000 words a year. I always enjoy doing them because I have to think about the process of writing and make sense of it. I often surprise myself with […]

The latest issues of The Secrets are out and available as part of the Volume Six Subscription Package. Issue 128 takes a look at some first novel problems. I use Lamentation by Ken Scholes as my example. While it’s clear that Mr. Scholes can write very well, the novel’s structure has some problems, as do […]

The newest issue of The Secrets is out and available as part of the Volume Six Subscription Package. This issue covers story construction and the methods for finding and building a character growth arc into any story. While not every story requires a character growth arc; all stories are better for having them. Including character […]

One of the funny things about going to any convention is the number of people who walk up to me and say: “Oh, I didn’t know you were going to be here!” This is especially funny at Gencon because I’ve not missed one since 1981. So, YES, I will be at Gencon this year. I […]

Hey, I just got through a hellish two-day period last week in which temps here in Arizona hit around 110 and I had zero air conditioning. As I joked over on Twitter: it was so hot, Satan called to let me know I was getting credit for time served. I figured August is going to […]

This year is the first year that Aaron Allston and I will be teaching writing at DragonCon in Atlanta, over the Labor Day weekend. Aaron and I have put together 12 hours of writing workshops. You can buy a pass for the whole of them, or pick them up ala carte during the convention. (The […]