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  • Advancing Your Plot

    Advancing Your Plot

    January 13, 2025January 12, 2025

    I tell writers often they are failing to “advance their plot.” What does that mean, and why does it matter?…

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  • Choosing the Right Scenes to Go in the Right Places

    Choosing the Right Scenes to Go in the Right Places

    July 3, 2023

    My guess is that few novel writers spend time thinking about scene choice or type and the placement of specific…

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  • Developing a Scene Outline for Your Novel

    Developing a Scene Outline for Your Novel

    January 30, 2023

    Writing a novel is a challenge. If you’ve done it (or tried to), you understand. I’m a big proponent of…

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  • 12 Weeks to Writing Your 10 Key Scenes

    12 Weeks to Writing Your 10 Key Scenes

    August 2, 2021

    Anyone who tells you that writing a novel is easy doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Plain and simple. Great…

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  • Plotting Madness on the Gorgeous California Coast

    Plotting Madness on the Gorgeous California Coast

    May 30, 2019

    There is still time to sign up for our intensive, fun, and intimate Plotting Madness Boot Camp in Mendocino, CA….

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  • The Character Arc in Six Specific Stages

    The Character Arc in Six Specific Stages

    April 15, 2019January 12, 2025

    Here’s a post I wrote for Writers Helping Writers some months back that I’d like to share with you. As…

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  • Half Off Writing Boot Camps ~ South Lake Tahoe, California

    Half Off Writing Boot Camps ~ South Lake Tahoe, California

    January 17, 2019February 4, 2025

    For the last five years, I’ve been teaching writing retreats in gorgeous South Lake Tahoe, CA. And each year I…

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  • Outlining Your Novel – Whether You’re a Plotter or a Pantser

    Outlining Your Novel – Whether You’re a Plotter or a Pantser

    October 1, 2018

    Today’s guest post is by Harrison Demchick. Are you a plotter or a pantser? Pantser is a term that has…

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  • Still Room to Join In on Plotting Madness!

    Still Room to Join In on Plotting Madness!

    August 9, 2018

    There is so much to know about crafting a solid plot. If you’ve been following my blog awhile and studying…

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