Category: Creative Writing

I hope by now you’ve had time to read Blake Snyder’s two books, Save the Cat and Save the Cat Goes to the Movies. I hope you’ve also read The Moral Premise by Dr. Stanley D. Williams. The...

By now you have read Blake Snyder's two books, Save the Cat and Save the Cat Goes to the Movies and know the 15 story beats of successful Hollywood screenplays and the 10 generic film patterns Snyder...

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."W. Somerset Maugham I spent a large part of my life writing novels nobody wanted to read simply because I...

Below are the books I’ve find most helpful for writing novels and screenplays.  I've read each one many, many times. When I start a new creative writing project, the first thing I do is...

In this article, and the following series, I show you how to write your first novel. Here you’ll find the basics I wish I had known forty years ago when I started writing long fiction. If you...

Writing a novel can sometimes feel like trying to make chicken salad out of chicken poo. The problem is your mind is infinite and multidimensional while a novel is finite and linear. Writing a novel...