Book Bomb for Ben Wolverton

Help Someone in Need: A Book Bomb for Ben We are having a book bomb on Wednesday, April 10th, on behalf of Ben Wolverton, who is the son of the New York Times bestselling author David...

Author Frank Morin

Help Someone in Need: A Book Bomb for Ben We are having a book bomb on Wednesday, April 10th, on behalf of Ben Wolverton, who is the son of the New York Times bestselling author David Farland. Ben Wolverton, age 16, was …

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Here’s another post created for the Fictorians.  See it here. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! May you be in Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead! May your home always be too small to hold all your friends. …

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Complex Characterstop comments

This is another post also found on the Fictorians blog.  Check it out there, along with other excellent posts on Character and character development this month. We’ve all heard the criticism:  “Your characters are flat” or “One-dimensional” “Make them deeper, …

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This month in our Fictorians‘ blog posts, we’re talking a lot about character, as well we should.  Great characters are critical components for great stories.  We need to understand our characters, their relationships, and then we need to reveal the …

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Set In Stone – v3 complete

No better way to start a new year than by celebrating a big milestone. During the holidays I completed the new manuscript for Set In Stone, my YA fantasy novel.  It’s a third draft, but I took the story in …

 

What if? – Two words to unlock inspiration

This post is featured on the Fictorians web page.  Check it out there, and take a look at all the other excellent posts this month focused on building writing momentum. Have you ever had a great idea for a story …

 

Sail To Success Writing Workshop

Lots of people take cruises to the Bahamas, and lots of people take writing workshops, but I just attended what might just be the first professional level writing workshop held on a cruise to the Bahamas. It was a first …

 

Preparing for Productivity

This post appeared on the Fictorians web site last week, and was also re-posted by The Passive Voice, which I think is great. We’re writers, so we write, right? Absolutely. But that’s not all we do, and honestly the actual …

 

Book Review: Story Engineering by Larry Brooks

This book review is also posted on the Fictorians website.  For anyone who wants to escalate their level of craft, this book is a must-read. It seems every author has at least one book on writing they feel every other …

 

Plan for the next 6 months

As I posted last week, I recently attended World Fantasy Con (WFC) and had a great time. While there in Toronto, I met with John Richard Parker from ZENO. We talked for a couple of hours over lunch and laid …

 
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