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Pro Am Tip #33 - The Secret

The secret to good fiction isn’t plot. It isn’t setting. It’s the characters. It’s characters we want; characters we love. Characters we...

ProAm Tip #32

All things serve the story. Easy to say, hard to put into practice. As writers, we’re all in love with every word we grunt-and-push out...

ProAm Tip #31 - Adverbs

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause, or sentence. Adverbs typically...

ProAm Tip #30 - There are no accidents.

Sometimes you’ll hear people discussing a visual medium such as television, and the unintended effect of some visual clue or key. “That...

ProAm Tip #29 - WHY I BLOG

It was recently brought to my attention that, as a blogger, I’m pretty much a failure. At least, I’m a failure in that I didn’t make it...

ProAm Tip #28 - “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.” - Unknown Chem

What sounds like just another chemistry joke (and we all know how hilarious THEY are) is actually the clearest distillation (see what I...

ProAm Tip #27 - The Hero: The Loser

I’m convinced that no one likes a perfect hero. No one likes a shining beacon of trust, honesty, hope, light, righteousness, and...

ProAm Tips #26 - Shut the hell up.

I go to my coffee shop (no, it’s not StarSchmucks) for a dirty chai on ice. I walk in, I admire the place, I listen to the music I’ve...

ProAm Tips #25 - Voice

Not yours. That’s a different tip. No, this time it’s about your characters. So many writers, either in books, television, or movies, are...

ProAm Tips #24 - Research

As a writer, I like to put my stories in places that will become sort of a third character. You don’t want stories that could take place...