Author Coaches, Editors, & PR Help: Recommendations for Authors
Top 10 Writing Lessons from a TV Producer
10 Ways Art History Can Improve Your Writing
Top 10 Screenwriting Books for Prose Writers
Top 10 Author Questions: How to Get An Agent
8 Great Acting Books for Writers
Recommended Books on the Craft of Writing
How to Write When You Don’t Have Time to Write
First Draft Done. Now What?
I’m a novelist, so I know the feeling: You conquered your fear and started your novel. You wrote for months or maybe years. You survived the long desert known as “the middle.” You wrote your favorite parts; the parts that made you want to write the story in the first place. And then, you wrote the last sentence. Added the last period. The End.
10 Unique Books for Writers
Now that my debut novel has hit the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and garnered glowing reviews (including from The New York Times), other writers often ask which books helped me develop my craft.
Writing Historical Fiction: Choose Better Details
Historical Fiction: History or Fiction?
I’m an art-historical novelist, so I’m very familiar with the on-going debate at the center of historical fiction: Is it the novelist’s duty to serve the HISTORY or the FICTION? Readers expect to learn something from historical fiction — to …
Just Say Yes! How Comedy Improv Can Embolden Your Writing
Should Authors Hire An Editor?
Writing a Successful Query Letter
Bestselling author Stephanie Storey’s top 5 tips for writing a killer query letter. If you follow this advice, I can’t promise that you, too, will get your first choice agent, but I can promise that you will write a better query letter… And increase your odds of getting someone to read your manuscript.
Write Like An Actor
Writers and actors SEEM so different don’t they? But they are really very similar, both striving to “live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.” This post will help writers begin to study the craft of acting to go deeper into characters, create more compelling scenes, and take their storytelling craft to the next level.