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Blog postMost writers are perfectionists, and that’s good. It means we like to produce excellent quality writing.
Most writers are perfectionists, and that’s bad. It means we’re never done.
The art of being a writer is to balance that good perfectionism against the bad perfectionism.
There’s a way to do that. It’s a method that has become wildly popular in the world of entrepreneurs.
The idea is to rapidly create something called a “Minimum Viabl -
Blog postNothing happens unless you take action.
But you don’t want to take random, chaotic actions.
You want to take intentional actions toward some goal.
To do that, you need an Action Plan.
One problem with most projects is that you don’t know all the steps required to complete the plan.
The solution is to make an Action Plan that evolves in time. As you work through the steps in your evolving Action Plan, you’ll continually add new st -
Blog postNearly six years ago, in the January 2015 issue of my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine, I wrote an article on what I call “the Success Equation.” In that article, I identified four crucial factors that determine whether you succeed or fail as a writer. And what is “success?” I’ll define it right from the get-go... Read More
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Blog postSo you’ve been working on your novel for years, and you can’t get it across the finish line. You’ve tried everything, and there’s just no more gas in your tank. What do you do when you just can’t finish that novel?
Meredith posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
Hi Randy,
Big fan of yours over here. I love that you answer questions on your blog and thought this might be a good one for you.
I’ve been working on a novel for about 4 ye -
Blog postSo you got carried away writing the synopsis for your novel and now it’s too long. What do you do? Did you waste your effort? How do you use all that material? And how does all this fit into my wildly popular Snowflake Method?
Lindsey posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
Hi Randy,
I am a first time novel writer and I find your snowflake method very helpful. I completed steps 1 through 3 fairly confidently and was excited to move onto -
Blog postWriting a fight scene is easy to get wrong. It’s also easy to get right. This blog post is adapted from a classic article I wrote in my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine back in October of 2006. That’s a long time ago, so I thought it was worth updating and posting on my blog.
We’re going to get down into the details in this post. Fight scenes are really easy, if you know the rules. And what are the rules?
Some Fight Scene Rules-of-Thumb Show, don’t tell Make it happen -
Blog postRecently, I was invited to be a guest on the popular podcast The Story Blender, hosted by best-selling novelist Steven James. Steven is also an internationally known speaker on the craft of fiction writing.
Steven and I had a very wide-ranging and animated discussion on the Snowflake Method and fiction writing. If you enjoy listening to podcasts, you can listen to my episode on The Story Blender here.
You may have already read Steven’s book Story Trumps Structure, a well-known -
Blog postHow do you make your readers care about your characters? Is there some foolproof way to do that? If so, what’s the secret?
Jim posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
What’s the best way to include background info on a character in the first few chapters so readers will care about him or her?
Randy sez: Making your readers care about your character is extremely important. If your readers care, they’ll probably keep reading. If they don’ -
Blog postWhat do you do if your computer crashes and you lose your entire novel?
That would be bad.
That would be horrible.
That should never happen, but it does happen to some writers every year. And once a novel is lost, it’s lost.
The only solution is to travel back in time and backup your computer before your machine crashes.
There may well be a computer crash coming in your future. It happens to most people at some point, if they live long enoug -
Blog postFrom time to time, my author friends get tired of the endless treadmill of marketing their work on social media and start asking if it’s worth doing.
I wrote an article on this very subject awhile back. The title was “What’s Social Media Good For?” and I published it in the November 2016 issue of my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine. This blog post is a light revision of the article I wrote then.
Let’s start by defining the problem we’re trying to solve.
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