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Getting Blood on Your Pages - what I learned from Fight Write

A long long time ago, I entered in a giveaway and won several books. One of those books was Fight Write by Carla Hoch, a "trained fighter...

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Way back in April, I spent four days at Mount Hermon, CA, attending a missions conference put on by the same organization I'm a summer...

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The Corruption Arc: a case study of King Saul

I, for one, struggle with negative character arcs. Mostly because I operate from a false sense of the "good" in humanity, and I really...

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3 Ways to Brainstorm New Superpowers for Your Next Novel

On Saturday, I sent out a newsletter with a challenge for my subscribers to come up with a unique superpower - something they'd never...

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3 Tips on Writing the Opposite Gender

In a long since trashed draft of Keepers of the Nine (only those of you who are veterans on this blog will know what I’m talking about...

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There's a lot of hype over "strong" female protagonists. Some love how women characters are portrayed nowadays, especially those who can...

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No One Writes Like You

Well. Guys, I stink at remembering things - especially important writing things, it appears. 'Cuz I was supposed to post this back when...

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