ONE OF THE NEATEST TOOLS I’ve come across is Scapple, simple mind-mapping Mac & Windows application for those who organize with a visual flare. I had no idea how much I needed this tool to support my writing until I started using it. What Is Scapple? Scapple is an easy-to-use tool for getting …
You know how it goes: You’re busy cooking dinner, out enjoying a run, working out at the gym, slaving away at the office, or just settling down for bed at night, and then wham! Out of no where, a brilliant idea or task strikes that you don’t want to forget. Let’s face …
I thought this was a great article, so I shared it here. You can read the rest over at the Writer’s Path blog after the article preview below by clicking the link at the bottom of the article. How To Write a Great Fight Scene by Sarah from Paper, Words, …
So what comes next? Do we just sit around and wait for the story? Patience, my young apprentice. Basically, yes. The intensity of NaNoWriMO came to a screeching halt for me during the evening of November 30. Roughly 50,200 words made their way from my brain to Scrivener’s software by …
This is a text version of the 30-chapter outline originally presented in this article. Since not everyone uses Scrivener, I thought I’d make the text available to the masses by blogging the outline here. Enjoy! Now write something amazing! Special thanks goes to Instagram user writerlydosageofinspiration—an effort by Lelia Strong at The …
Since not everyone uses Scrivener, I thought I’d make the text available to the masses by blogging the template here. This is a text version of the character sketch/bio worksheet, the result of crawling the internet and tweaking different versions. This one has everything. Note: You don’t have to fill out each line …
Know the rules before you break them! Created with Scrivener 2.6 Mac Template Version 1.2 Thanks to the assistance of Instagram user writerlydosageofinspiration—an effort by Lelia Strong at The Writer’s Block—the 30 Days/30 Chapters pages, as found somewhere in the NaNoWiMo forums, I was able to get my hands on …
Over the past few years, I have read many articles about self-publishing and the accompanying workload around self-marketing that comes with this decision. One the one hand, a self-published author reaps most of the sales profit. On the other, without a publishing company marketing a self-published author, no will find their books. So, to …
This afternoon the Memoir app alerted me to the fact that I announced to the world one year ago today (right here on my site) that I would be writing GALAXY. A year later, I still haven’t published anything, and I’ve only made a few blog updates about the story…but …