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Three essential questions about your protagonist
Here are three absolutely essential questions that will help crystallize your story:
What does your protagonist WANT?What is their PLAN to get it?Who and what is standing in their way? (FORCES OF ANTAGON...
What's your Author BRAND?
The results of last week’s poll shows a good half of you (who responded!) are writing in the first half of your books. Which is excellent! You’re already well on your way to A Book by the End of the Year.
(I myself am wiped out by the last...
A Book By the End of the Year - let's get started!
It’s the MIDPOINT of our year - which is a perfect time to start a book — or recommit to the one you’re writing so that it really does get done this year.
I know there’s a lot of severe weather going on right now that might make it hard to...
The book will write itself
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Do you have a completed or partial manuscript sitting around in a drawer or under your bed that you think isn’t good enough to finish or submit?
- Are you wondering how you could possibly think you’re good enough to make it as an autho...
Sense & Sensibility - story breakdown (& tentpole scenes)
We’ve been talking about the TENTPOLE SCENES of your book or script, and that actually dovetails very nicely with my Writing Life post this holiday weekend - so you get an extra newsletter! I owe you one after missing last week’s, on accoun...
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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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