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by Ryan Lanz It’s been said that the difference between a good novel and a great novel is only 1%. When I first read that, it used to drive me nuts. What is that 1%? If you asked 100 people, you would probably get 100 different answers. What I’m talking about here […] via How to… Continue reading How to Gain That Last 1% in Your Writing — A Writer’s Path

by Doug Lewars I expect most people, whether they agree with it or not, are familiar with the Myers-Briggs personality classification system which divides the population into 16 groups. Many psychologists complain this is over simplified, but although the system appears to consist of four binary couples, each pair is, in fact, a […] via Separating… Continue reading Separating Yourself From Your Characters — A Writer’s Path

by Ryan Lanz It’s been said that the difference between a good novel and a great novel is only 1%. When I first read that, it used to drive me nuts. What is that 1%? If you asked 100 people, you would probably get 100 different answers. What I’m talking about here […] via How to… Continue reading How to Gain That Last 1% in Your Writing — A Writer’s Path

by Laura Peters Writing is more than just a passion for some people. For them, it is their career, it is their whole life, and it is something that they are attached to in more ways than one. Although, for some, it is just something that they do to make themselves feel better, […] via The… Continue reading The Freedom to Write Whatever, Wherever is What You Need — A Writer’s Path

by ARHuelsenbeck If you are a reader, you should write book reviews. via Why Writers Should Review Books — A Writer’s Path

by Doug Lewars I enjoy writing in the Fantasy genre and World Building is a part of that. It may or may not be extensive. For example, you can simplify your life considerably if you use our existing world and just add a bit of magic here and there. J.K. Rowling uses that […] via The… Continue reading The Complications of World Building For an Author — A Writer’s Path

by J.J. Hensley For seven years, I had the pleasure of being a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. During that time, I conducted a variety of criminal investigations involving counterfeiting, check fraud, wire fraud, and even cell phone cloning. via How Pitching a Novel is Like Being in the Secret Service — A… Continue reading How Pitching a Novel is Like Being in the Secret Service — A Writer’s Path

Go ahead, Google something along the lines of prologues in novels. I’ll wait. Done? If so, you’ll have found links like 7 Deadly Sins of Prologues, The Worst Ways to Begin Your Novel: Advice from Literary Agents, The Dreaded Prologue, Question: the oft-maligned prologue, and so on. Read these four pages. Did you see the following?… Continue reading The Puzzling Prologue Problem — A Writer’s Path