Questions 6: Developing a Sparkley Voice
Subscribe Here! Melissa asks: “How do I get prose that sparkles without killing my love for the project?”
Questions 5: Cultivating Experts
Subscribe Here! Sgt. Mike asks: If you’re a new author, how do you find experts to help with your fact checking?
Questions 4: Plotting
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Questions 3: More on Drama and Melodrama
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Questions 2: Revisions and Pulling Down Old Books
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Questions 1: Reworking Early Stories
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Postmortem 4: The Last Thing You Have To Do
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Postmortem 3: Writing What You’re Afraid Of
Subscribe Here! It’s time to pick the topic for your next book, and Stephen King has some advice that’s worth listening to and thinking about.
Postmortem 2: To Edit or Not To Edit (and How)
Subscribe Here! The one thing I’ve gotten the most emails asking about–here’s a comprehensive look at editing and getting to market without wrecking your book or ruining your schedule.
Postmortem 1: When To Say No
Subscribe Here! Life gets in the way of writing–staying the course can mean making some difficult decisions.