Do you wonder why novelists need training? The answer is simple. Because more often than not, newer writers—and a few stubborn ones who have been stuck for years—don’t know what they don’t know. Some writers don’t even understand the nuance and depth of what that...
It’s fair to ask, “What does engineering a novel mean?” And how does it lead to writing success? To paraphrase Webster, to engineer is to create and design large structures or new products or systems by using scientific methods. But writing a novel is art, not...
Let me tell you a story. Once there was a writer who had a dream. To live, work and thrive by telling stories that made people smile, swoon and weep. He was pretty decent at it too, sailing through school on a knack for essays and last-minute term papers that fooled...
One day a chicken was standing on the side of the road. Actually, he was staring at the road, a little lost, when someone stopped and asked him this question: Speaking as a chicken, which came first… you, or the egg?” To which the chicken, after pondering for a...
Write inside the box? Surely all the great authors wrote outside the box? Unless they contain a book ordered from Amazon, writers don’t like boxes.We resent being categorized, stuffed into or shown what appears to be a box that, because someone says we belong there,...
