Sitemap - 2024 - Writes of Fiction
How rushing protects the ego while sabotaging your potential
Invite your friends to read Writes of Fiction
Wednesday Craft: Nov. 27, 2024
Wednesday Craft: Nov. 20, 2024
Plot hack or story development?
Wednesday Craft: Nov. 13, 2024
Plot your story using learning and teaching techniques
Wednesday Craft: Oct. 30, 2024
You're invited to Office Hours tomorrow!
Wednesday Craft: Oct. 23, 2024
The social graces of an online author
Wednesday Craft: Oct. 16, 2024
Why your training scenes are boring
Wednesday Craft: Sept. 25, 2024
Wednesday Craft: Sept. 18, 2024
Weekend Office Hours this Saturday, September 21
Wednesday Craft for Sept. 11, 2024
Last chance to get on my editing calendar during 2024
Is a publishing professional going to steal your book?
Morning Office Hours this Thursday, August 15
How to write scenes readers just can't quit
The baroque choreography of stage business
What do you call a writer who doesn't read?
Making art and life with "The Bear"
Evening Office Hours this Thursday, July 18
How to talk about your creative work with others
Friday Craft: Ask me about storytelling and writing fiction
Goals for writers: Staying in your own dance space
Refresh your story's vision with a Clarity Audit
Friday Craft: Your questions about writing commercial fiction
One last seat available: Story Incubator weekly group coaching
Scene secrets: Unlocking the techniques
Evoking archetypes in writing with tarot
Seats now open: Story Incubator weekly group coaching
In the dumps: A periodic Writes of Fiction brain dump
Weekend Office Hours this weekend: Saturday, June 15
If you think writing novels is easy, you're probably not very good at it
Why you should be writing in someone else's book
Evening Office Hours tonight: Thursday, May 16
Evening Office Hours with guest editor Beth Hill: Thursday, May 16
Characters, character agency, and a craft quiz
Office Hours Brown Bag: Thursday, May 9
Are you still obsessing over your first chapter?
Manuscript Revision: When less is more
Why it's important to read bad books
Office Hours: Leverage the power of your story's narrator
Chapters, scenes, and the spaces in between
The Writes of Fiction Office Hours—tomorrow!
The ten most common structural edits
How to tell if your book is a success
Now open to Writes of Fiction subscribers: Story Incubator weekly coaching group
Save the dates! Office Hours community coaching calls
Building your literary community
Office Hours ahead: Saturday, March 16
Who can copyright a book by ChatGPT?
Diagnosis: You've got protagonist problems
Chomping down on the crunchy bits
Office Hours ahead: Tuesday, February 20
The fragile beauty of being alive
Heading off common storytelling blunders
Why editors and agents don't offer a "quick look"
First Office Hours of the year coming up
Let's talk (hint, hint) about your new paid subscriber tier benefit