The Magic of Scrivener Finally Comes to iOS!
Somehow it slipped by me this past July: Scrivener finally arrived in the App Store for iPads and iPhones after years of our waiting. Now we can take the magic […]
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Writing Lessons (3.2): Conflict in Colony’s Pilot
To help explain the elements of CHANGE mentioned in my last post, I thought it would be helpful to analyze a movie or television episode. I just recently watched the
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Writing Lessons (2): The Building Blocks of Stories
At least since Aristotle, writers and critics have identified four building blocks that storytellers use to spin their tales: plot, character, setting (atmosphere), and tone (point of view). Stories are
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How To Find the Perfect Writing App: An Idiosyncratic Quest from Typewriter to Scrivener
Now that I’m in the production stage with Wolf Code, I finally took a moment to re-evaluate my “workflow,” as a number of writers call the process by which we fashion
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Writing Lessons (1): Expectations
I’ve been reviewing story-construction advice from writers, editors, and agents: Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, Scott Meredith, and others. For my benefit, and hopefully for yours as well, I am processing
Is Writing More about Planning or Discovering?
“When you write, do you spend more time planning out the details of your story or discovering them as you are swept along in the process?” Readers often ask writers
Three Writing Lessons from Breaking Bad
Since Breaking Bad this week swept the 2014 Emmy Awards, it seems to be a good time for me to highlight three narrative techniques the show’s writers and directors exploited