Like most millennials, I grew up with a pair of headphones on my head and don’t think properly if I’m not listening to some good music. I can’t concentrate in silence; if you put me alone in a quiet room and told me to write a chapter, I’d probably never get past the first paragraph.…
There are many rules that exist within writing, and even more for each subcategory of writing. For novels, one of those rules is that the whole is divided into chapters. As rules go, that’s about as universally recognized as you can get. But what about the length of those chapters? That’s a whole different story.…
One of the most difficult elements of plotting any work of creative storytelling is to create a believable sequence of events that tells your story. High budget Hollywood movies and big name video game studies aren’t immune to it. I’m not going to name any names, but I’m sure you have a few examples in…
(Or how to tell if you’re writing too much description.) A lot of things have evolved about my writing since I started out, but my recent project of entirely rewriting my first manuscript to cut more than 50,000 words from its total length has forced me to focus on one of those areas in particular.…