Now, of course, removing a transmission is a wildly complicated and difficult process, a little like saying Step One: Animate the monster or Step One: Walk on the moon. In my family, the term has become synonymous with comically difficult tasks– such as writing a book.
Category: Ensemble Writing
Get Series-ous: Seven Things to Do Before Starting Your Series
Though it has its many positives, there are certain pitfalls any writer can run into when writing a series. Taking these precautionary steps in advance will help you to minimize the challenges down the line and, hopefully, to produce better books.
Two is Company, Six is Ensemble Writing
When writing a large cast, you have to know your characters really well. More importantly than that, however, you have to know how they interact with one another. Here are two exercises you, as an author, can do to ensure your characters are rounded and fully-developed before they ever hit the pages of your book.
We’ll Be Countin’ Words
For overwriters, word count goals can be very good and they can be very bad.
13 Stages of Writing a Novel
Be a writer, they said. It will be easy, they said.