Screenwriting
Slow Your Roll
Labor Day weekend, I finally decided to go see the action movie Top Gun: Maverick. It seemed like a…
October 4, 2022-
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Romancing Your StoryHole-Hearted to Whole-Hearted and How to Get There
What hole is in his heart? What hole is in her heart? This is where your romance story begins.…
June 23, 2021 -
Romancing Your Story
Emotional Logic, Or How to Keep Readers From Throwing Your Book Against the Wall
The basis of every good story is conflict. As writing teacher extraordinaire James Scott Bell often says, “Happy people…
February 23, 2021 -
Mystery/Thriller/SuspenseAuthors as Psychotherapists – Getting into the Mind of Our Characters
What can authors learn from the world of psychotherapy? According to the Microsoft Bing definition, a psychotherapist “treats mental…
January 17, 2021 -
Platform and BrandingHow to Market Your Book in 2020
The difference between filing your carefully edited pages on your computer and readers reading those pages, is marketing. Books…
December 18, 2020 -
Talking CharacterHow Characters Evolve in a Series by Lisa E. Betz
Why do we love a good series? Because we love the characters and the kinds of situations they get…
March 20, 2018 -
Talking Character
Which Comes First, Plot Or Character?
Plot and character. Two halves of any great story. Both are critical, whether you are telling a character-driven literary…
January 20, 2018 -
Talking CharacterYour Character’s Skewed Worldview
In any good story, the protagonist can only achieve her external story goal by first overcoming a deep inner…
April 19, 2017
