Flirt Your Eyelashes Off, Writers
carriejonesbooks SHAUN IS SICK! Gasp! He is never sick. But he is, so I’ve made the executive decision to replay/republish one of our most popular episodes from three years ago. Ready?…
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America as Paradise? Part of Making A Bestselling Novel?
We’ve started a series of paid and free posts about writing bestsellers. Our first post about this is here. In James Hall’s book, HIT LIT, he looks at twelve top-selling…
The Absolutely Simplest Plot Structure Ever
A lot of the writers I teach get really freaked out about structure. They go on multiple craft book journeys trying to find the structure that resonates with them, the…
Pinch, there it is; googly eyes on the train, and yes, we are on our 37th career this year
Dogs are Smarter Than People/Write Better Now Last week, we talked about pinch points both on the podcast and on the blog, and honestly? Nobody seemed super into it, but…
Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories
On last week’s podcast and the one a few before that, and in a post, Shaun and I talked a bit about plot structures and narrative structures and how here…