The second act. The mushy middle. The saggy center. The part of a story everyone hates. OK, I know how…
The great thing about writing in screenplay format is that the scenes don’t take very long to write. The bad…
For 15 years, I wrote crime fiction under the name “Jim Winter.” I had one traditionally published novel called Northcoast Shakedown…
One of the things that came up in the Second Wave beta was how I handled point of view. For…
Last week, I realized JT Austin, one of the heroes of The Children of Amargosa and Second Wave, wasn’t pissed off enough.…
One of the things writers hear from their editors is “Show. Don’t t ell.” There is an aversion to exposition…
Week 2 of writing found me writing JT’s first scenes. And I reached a stunning conclusion. He wasn’t pissed off…
I started working on the final installment of The Amargosa Trilogy yesterday. I’m doing something different this time. I’m writing…
The core of any story is in the characters. If you’re just writing about some gee-whiz concept you came up…
So I have ambitious plans for writing in 2018: 2 novels, 3 novellas, with a fourth to be serialized after No…