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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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  • Scene Mastery Boot Camp ~ Nevada City, California

    Scene Mastery Boot Camp ~ Nevada City, California

    January 3, 2019

    Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing information about the 2019 writing boot camps. My co-instructor, Catharine Bramkamp, and…

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  • Getting the Big Picture Across in Your Scenes

    Getting the Big Picture Across in Your Scenes

    August 20, 2018

    Today’s post is a reprint from one I published two years ago. It bears repeating! Writing scenes can be daunting,…

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  • How to Hook Readers and Reel Them into Your Scenes

    How to Hook Readers and Reel Them into Your Scenes

    May 24, 2018

    We toss around the word hook when we talk about stories. What’s the hook? we ask. Sometimes we’re talking about the…

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  • Keys to Moving Your Plot Forward

    Keys to Moving Your Plot Forward

    February 19, 2018

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

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  • Start the New Year with a Comprehensive Scene Outline

    Start the New Year with a Comprehensive Scene Outline

    January 3, 2018

    I wrote this post a year ago, and since I did this series on scene outlines, I’ve had dozens of…

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  • 8 Steps to a Perfect Scene

    8 Steps to a Perfect Scene

    June 29, 2017

    I’m sharing a guest post I wrote some months back for Jerry Jenkins (Here’s the link to the original post,…

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  • 3 Steps to Successfully Outlining Your Novel

    3 Steps to Successfully Outlining Your Novel

    January 19, 2017

    Outlining your novel in some fashion is one of the best ways to ensure you have a solid story structure….

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  • 6 Cinematic Techniques You Can Apply to Your Novel Right Now

    6 Cinematic Techniques You Can Apply to Your Novel Right Now

    December 26, 2016

    Many of us were raised watching thousands of movies and television shows. The style, technique, and methods used in film…

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