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Your story’s Concept and Premise

Your story’s Concept and Premise

I’ve been working on my next book, called The Giant’s Giant, and I’ve had a lot of trouble getting it going. For some reason, I start writing a couple of chapters, then get stuck and don’t know where the story is going. I start over, and again I’ve gotten stuck. It’s...
Anatomy of a Battle Scene

Anatomy of a Battle Scene

  As those of you who read my Minecraft-inspired novels know, battle scenes are a big part of my stories. In my earlier books, I really didn’t understand the purpose of the battle, other than to raise tension, but over the years, I’ve realized that...
Sentence Structure

Sentence Structure

  Hi everyone. I wanted to talk with you about something I’ve slowly been learning and getting better at, I think, as I write more books, and that’s sentence structure. When I go back and look at my very first books, all of which you can no longer...
Show it before you need it

Show it before you need it

  There’s a rule in writing, and of course, whenever I say there’s a rule, I’ll think of multiple ways of breaking it, but so far, I’ve never broken this rule, and it goes like this: Rule #10: If your hero needs a gun at the end of the...
Dialogue

Dialogue

I wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned when it comes to writing exciting and engaging dialogue. In some of my first novels, my dialogue was compared to a microwave burrito (not my best review, but one of my favorites). After receiving that rebuke, I...

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