Every well-constructed World runs on rules. The mark of a truly great World is when your reader doesn't necessarily realize what those rules are. Everything has to be planned out before you ever start writing so that, if you want to write about something, you don't hav...

A huge part of writing is finding someone impartial to read your work before anyone else sees it. That person needs to be your biggest critic because anything that gets passed them (a poorly constructed sentence, a whiny unlikable hero, a misspelled word) will go out t...

So in case you haven't already noticed, I'm doing a very quick, very brief overview of the main points of story creation. Once I've hit most, if not all, of the highs, I'll then proceed to give more in-depth analysis according to my own experience. Please to do not tak...

World Building is the root of every good story. You might have the greatest characters in the world, the best plot ever conceived, and the freshest, most riveting writing style known to man, but if your world doesn't make sense then, I promise, no one is going to care....

Writing doesn't begin with the writing, it begins with the idea. Before you can write about Susie Stalino and her Casino Boys you have to figure out who Susie Stalino is. How old is she? What color is her hair? Who is her favorite singer/dancer/writer/etc.? Is she open...

So this is supposed to be a blog about writing, but it's also my blog so that means I can write and post whatever I want ^-^

I wanted to wait until the book was almost through at least the first draft, but not finished, so that I would have the best chance of saying I w...

Anyone can write. It's actually rather easy to just stick a bunch of words together and call it a story. But not everyone can write well, right away. It takes time, effort, and dedication to hone your craft from a collection of words into a masterpiece of language.

Lear...