Advanced Fiction Writing
The Three Pillars of Marketing
Using AI Effectively
Why Your Story Question Matters
Why I’m Switching to Substack
Your Life Goals Document
Every Character Has A Story
Networking and Notworking
After Your First Draft
Your AI Life Manager
Writing Through the Holidays
The Anthropic Class-Action Lawsuit
Your Scene List
The Movie in Your Reader’s Brain
This is a Really Bad Idea, But…
Your Secret Weapon–Character Synopses
Every Yes is a Thousand Noes
Your One-Sentence Summary
How to Interview Your Characters
The Problem With Zingers
Researching Your Novel With ChatGPT
The Question Nobody is Asking
The 80/20 Rule And Novelists
Your Best Writing Conference Ever
How to Be a “Bad-As” Editor
The Holes In Your Novel
What Happened In This Scene?
How to Plan a Series of Novels
Writing Fiction on a Big Stage
Where Is Your Novel Going?
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Writing the Perfect Synopsis for Beginners
What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed
How to Promote Your Reader Magnet
ToFu For Novelists
Trust the Magic
What Your Reader Desperately Wants
5 Secrets of Great Marketing Copy
How to Make Your Annual Plan
Your Massively Transformative Purpose
Search Engine Optimization for Novelists
A Virtuous Cycle for Marketing Your Books
Exporting Notes From an E-book to Your Computer
Creating a Minimum Viable Product
How to Make an Action Plan
The Success Equation
When You Just Can’t Finish That Novel
When Your Outline is Too Long
On Writing Fight Scenes
My Recent Podcast on The Story Blender
How to Make Your Reader Care About Your Characters
Crash-Proofing Your Novel
Social Media Marketing and Your Novel
What If Your Novel is Losing Steam?
Can You Learn How to Plot Fiction?
Getting Chapter Two Right
What If You’re Not a Strong Finisher?
How Do You Learn the Craft of Writing Fiction?
Can You Have Multiple Protagonists?
Revising Your Novel
How Many Viewpoint Characters in Your Novel?
Branding Your Fiction
NaNoWriMo is Coming Soon!
Can You Start With a Disaster?
About Cliffhangers
Multiple Viewpoint Characters
What if Your Best Book Comes Last in the Series?
How Do You Decide Who Your Protagonist Is?
Can You Start Your Novel With a Minor Character?
Changing Your Novel’s Genre
Can You Use MRUs Everywhere?
Where Do You Place Your Inciting Incident?
Do You Need an Agent?
Interview With a Snowflaker
Recovering the Joy of Writing
GDPR for Authors, Part 4
GDPR for Authors, Part 3
Coming, May 18—How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method
GDPR for Authors, Part 2
GDPR for Authors, Part 1
Fear of Writing
Why Publish Your Novel with a Traditional Publisher?
When Should You Drop Your Story?
Can You Keep Secrets From Your Reader?
Controlling Chapter Lengths in Your Novel
How to Write a Flashback
Who Decides if a Writer has Talent?
Writing a Novel in First Person
Writing a Novel With Too Many Options
How To Be More Original
The Road to Glory for Novelists
Your Novel’s Best Reading Level
How to Use The Force to Write Your Novel
New Snowflake Method Audiobook
How Does a Seat-of-the-Pants Writer Create Story Structure?
How Do You Know When To Start and End a Scene?
Keeping Your Whiny Characters Likable
What Are The Rules on Mixing Viewpoints?
More Than Mere Dialogue
Writing a Series Using the Snowflake Method
Backstory From the Remote Past
How To Choose Your Author Name
Should You Go Indie?
Creating 3-D Characters For Your Novel
How Should You Start Your Novel?
Four Act Structure Or Three?
Getting Serious About Series
How Often Should Indie Authors Publish?
Want to Take a Thrill Ride With Me?
My New Book on the Snowflake Method
The Death of “Self-Publishing”
The Unsafe Road to Writing Fiction