Sitemap - 2024 - Screenwriting Tricks for Authors

Level up your writing - with holiday movies!

Rewriting: Structure patterns

DON'T start a new book! Finish the old one!

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors - private discussion group

Nanowrimo: The Thanksgiving Coma

The Two-Part Act II

What now?

Write for your life

Nanowrimo Day 1: If you're stuck, skip ahead!

Story Structure Patterns: What KIND of story is it?

What is High Concept?

Book to TV adaptations: The Perfect Couple

The first word is the hardest

Author Marketing 101: Book Festivals

Check Your Act I Story Elements! Into the Special World

Building Character: Inner Desire vs. Outer Desire

Inciting Incident: Something has to happen, immediately

Writing Act I: Review

Banned books: A Wrinkle in Time

Book. Or no book.

The Myth of CHAPTER ONE

Half a year to get that book written!

Fall in Love With Story Structure

Romance tropes, Netflix's rom com revival and The Idea of You

Romance tropes, Netflix's rom com revival and The Idea of You

The Bad Version - scene work

How research builds your book or script

Creating Character with Archetypes

Writing the Mentor Character & Working with a Mentor

What is a Mentor?

Master List: The MENTOR character

World Building: Theme & Image Systems (Part 2)

Two new options for private feedback and chat

Introduce yourself and your book!

What is THEME?

How to break your book

Leap Year, One Day: The MAGICAL DAY story

Leap Year, One Day: The MAGICAL DAY story

Take an art bath!

Plants and Payoffs

Plants and Payoffs

Writing Act & Sequence Climaxes

"It's Groundhog Day. Again."

Are you going to write that book or what?

SELMA analysis, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

15 minutes of writing per day equals a book