It’s here! It’s finally here! My Scene & Sequel Super Powered Writing Workbook If you’ve been waiting for Kathleen’s book on Scene & Sequel, Super-Powered Writing! Good News! The long wait is over. We now have a lecture packet (an instructional workbook) written for Margie Lawson’s Writing Academy. Plotters and Pantser both love using Scene […]
Attention Writers: Did you know, for good or bad, your critique group will exert one of the strongest influences on your career? Yet, yet very few writers learn how to conduct a critique group for optimum success. Don’t make this mistake. For years, I studied and surveyed critique groups and critique methods. I learned what […]
Natural born writers catalog sensory data. They store emotional reactions and poignant bits of dialogue as events unfold around them. This happens out of no conscious effort on the writer’s part. It just happens. No matter how nightmarish the experience, no matter how spiritually elevating, how tender, or loving, or awe-inspiring, no matter how devastating or painful – writers record story details.
Jules Verne paid a price to be a writer. What might he have accomplished had he turned his inventive genius to science instead of writing? I’ll bet you he would’ve been just as great.
We’ll never know.
We do know this — he inspired young people to become scientists, explorers, inventors and engineers. He dreamed possibilities, wrote them into fascinating stories, and others turned his visions into realities. Still, Jules Verne paid a price – the same price all great writers must pay. He gave his time and his heart to it.
How would two of our favorite authors, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, fare as writers in today’s world? I have confidence they’d cope surprisingly well with technology and the added demands of promotion in today’s marketplace? Let’s pretend Charles and Jane are contemporaries and very close friends. Observe as they wrestle with the challenges of […]
