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Writing Act II: Part 1 of your book
Maybe THE key to writing and editing your Act II is to understand how this Act breaks into two very different, contrasting halves - really like yang and yin, day and night.
Act II: Part 1 and Act II: Part 2 is how I refer to the second an...
A path to author success: debut novelist Frances Crawford
Frances Crawford was one of the debut authors appearing at Scotland’s Bute Noir Crime Writing Festival this month, and she stole the audience’s hearts with her inspirational story of writing and selling her first novel in her sixties.
I a...
All the posts you need to write a book
I’ve pinned a guide to every single important post on this site, in order:
- Write a Book this Year
The entire Screenwriting Tricks for Authors course is available there - all the links on one page, following the workbooks chapter by...
Write A Book in a Year - start here!
This page of links follows the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors workbooks, chapter by chapter, in order, with sublinks to expanded posts and videos. You can use it with one of the workbooks or without the books.
If you start from the begin...
Creating Character Arc
Today let’s review one of the most important story elements of all: your Hero/ine’s CHARACTER ARC.
What we’re looking at here is essential, but it’s also very simple:
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Where does the hero/ine START in Act I?
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Where do they END at t...
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Million-selling, Thriller Award-winning crime author and screenwriter. Author/teacher of the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors books & workshops.
Crime writer. Twelfth novel, The Grapevine, published by Blackstone in June 2026, co-written with my wife Alexandra Sokoloff.
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