From Rick: A few months back I talked about the importance of having a strong ending. THE IMPORTANCE OF A STRONG ENDING Writing a good, strong ending can be a challenge, but as I pointed out in the previous blog post on strong endings, I can’t begin to tell you how many stories I read […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: I had two posts I was working on for possible use this week, but I didn’t have time to finish either one. One deals with creating great story endings and the other is how to read a publishing contract, or at least make some sense of it and the red flags in contracts. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: In Part-2 of this series, I promised a Part-3 to deal with how to create a clean source file. As often happens, other projects that were already running behind prevented me from tackling this third part of the series at the time. For those who missed the previous posts, here’s the link to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: It’s been a while since I talked about verb tenses. The last article that dealt with them in part was back on April 11, 2016 as part of an article on Common Writing Mistakes-Part 1. Before that, I had done a five-part series on verb tenses. You can find those articles (and the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: I often receive inspiration for these blog posts from questions I am asked. Last week, someone asked my advice on a publisher who contacted him about re-publishing a book. I had never heard of the publisher, but there are many small publishers I’ve never heard of because in the past few years new […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: For the next two posts, we’re going to talking about marketing. Next week, author Jordan Ring will be doing a guest post to share his thoughts and experiences on marketing and promotion, along with some good advice and tips. A while back I ran across a piece of advice to writers that said, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: Immortal characters can be interesting and challenging for a writer to deal with in fiction. Anytime a writer decides to put an immortal character into his fiction, a number of problems and challenges will confront him. The biggest one is that if the character is truly immortal, he (or she) cannot die or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: First off, this is not an R-rated post. I’m not going to be discussing anything explicit, just giving advice on when—and if—you should include sex or references to sex in your story or novel. This is also going to be a short post, though I may follow it up later. The first question […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: In part 1 I talked about keeping backups, perhaps the single best solution to many of the computer problems a writer can face. Not only will this help you recover from computer hardware disasters, but it can help you when something else goes wrong. What if you accidentally click “don’t save” when closing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Rick: While this blog is mostly about writing and things related thereto, this post is not an article on the basic types of story conflict: man vs. self, man vs. man vs. society, etc., although man vs. machine is one of them. No, it’s not that. We do talk from time to time about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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