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Fun Fridays – October 30, 2026
To make your book successful, you need a team of around 20 people working in sync. The result is a work of art!
Today’s video is a great picture of what it looks like!
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Leave a CommentMake Every Scene Matter (Part 4): How to Balance Action, Emotion, and Information
Some scenes have plenty happening—but still don’t work. Wait. What? How can that be? The characters are moving. Talking. Discovering things. Maybe somebody is even running for her life. But the scene feels rushed. Or heavy. Or weirdly distant. So, what’s the problem? Well, often it simply boils down to balance. Let’s look at that. Most scenes contain some combination of three things: Action. Emotion. Information. The trick is knowing which one should lead and how much of the scene the others need. Action Without Emotion Is Just Movement Suppose your heroine is being chased through a parking garage. She …
When Proposing a Series of Novels
I was once asked this question: Are today’s publishers more interested in an individual novel or a trilogy? Also, when submitting a proposal for the completed first novel in a planned trilogy, is it better to focus on the first novel or give an overview of the complete trilogy? Is there an upper limit to how many books should be in a series? Stand Alone Versus Series There is no firm “rule” about this. There are too many variables to be definitive. The only thing to remember is that committing to a multibook proposal by a publisher is a long …
Fun Fridays – October 23, 2026
The work of a stenographer or court reporter is an art. Today’s video introduces some basic elements of their work and the keyboard they use. Did you know that the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) and federal courts require a minimum speed of 225 wpm with high accuracy (usually 95% to 98%) to get certified or hired? I can’t remember a time in my life when I typed anything with 98% accuracy without reflexively hitting the backspace key a bazillion times. Before 1879, court reporting was done using shorthand. (Side trivia note: Charles Dickens (1812-1870), before becoming a famous author, …
Marks of a Writer
Maybe you’ve seen those lists or surveys on social media asking you to check every city you’ve visited or how many old-timey things you’ve done (“used a rotary phone,” “heard of a rotary phone,” “have scars from using a rotary phone,” etc.). Well, here’s one for writers. How many of the following twenty marks of a writer can you claim? a strong opinion on the Oxford comma multiple (currently unused) blank journals a favorite pen a favorite punctuation mark a dog-eared copy of The Elements of Style a dog-eared copy of On Writing Well a dog-eared copy of Bird by …