by John Yeoman | Apr 4, 2014 | Fiction, How to Write Stories
You’ve written a story you’re proud of. You’ve edited it until there’s nothing left to do. It’s perfect! Isn’t it? Of course. But how can you enhance it? That’s the challenge I face every day as a “copy...
by John Yeoman | Jan 21, 2014 | Fiction, Tips For Writers
You believe you’re a competent writer. Maybe you’re better than competent. So you submit your best story to a short fiction competition. You know it’s beautifully written, and you await the judges’ verdict with a modest confidence....
by John Yeoman | Dec 16, 2013 | How to Write Stories
Would You Like to Win a Short Story Contest? What do judges look for when awarding prizes in a story contest? You’d expect every reader to bring their prejudices to the table – and they do – but professional judges usually agree to a remarkable degree on which...
by John Yeoman | Sep 27, 2013 | How to Write a Novel
Would You Like to Overcome the Limitations of First Person POV? Have you ever wanted to do the impossible in your stories? That is, to have your narrator be everywhere and know everything, while staying in the first person point-of-view (pov)? It sounds like a...
by John Yeoman | Jul 11, 2013 | Create a Book
Would You Like to Self-publish Your Book? Imagine an ideal world where authors simply wrote books and publishers sold them. In this utopia, authors might even be content to give away 85%-90% of their sales revenue if publishers did all the work of producing,...
