How to Avoid Plot Convenience
What is a plot convenience? Can you identify examples of plot convenience in books and movies? Learn how to avoid plot convenience in your novels.
Make a Living as an Author: Debunking Author Myths
Make a Living as an Author: Debunking Author Myths
What are your big rocks for 2022?
The one part of the time bucket analogy that works is to do your best to put the big rocks first, so the less important things either fill the spaces between the big rocks or slip over the edges of the bucket and go undone.
Use Unreliable Narrators in Your Stories
We have all seen courtroom dramas where the witnesses called to testify get on the stand and are shown to be unreliable. After the witness tells what they saw, their testimony gets called into question. A good defense lawyer will cross examine a witness to show they could not actually see what happened with any…