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What is a Scene List and why should you care? Many novelists create a Scene List to guide the in writing their first draft. Should you create one?| Advanced Fiction Writing
What is a Scene List and why should you care? Many novelists create a Scene List to guide the in writing their first draft. Should you create one?| Advanced Fiction Writing
If you’re writing a novel for a 21st-century reader, you have one job—to create a movie in your reader’s brain. | Advanced Fiction Writing
Your job as a novelist is to create a movie in your reader's brain. Why should you do that? How do you do that? Read on to find out.| Advanced Fiction Writing
Writer's block is real, but how do you fix it? There's a simple technique that often works, and I'll spell it out here. Try it and see.| Advanced Fiction Writing
There's a little-used technique for turning a really good novel proposal into an unrejectable proposal. It's called character synopses and it works.| Advanced Fiction Writing
When you say Yes to one Project of the Year, you say No to a thousand others. But once you've chosen a Project of the Year, how do you stick to it?| Advanced Fiction Writing
It’s never too late to write the one-sentence summary for your novel. Or rewrite it. The one-sentence summary is the first step in my wildly popular Snowflake Method of writing a novel. But even if you don’t use the Snowflake Method, you still need a one-sentence summary. What is a One-Sentence Summary? A one-sentence summary... Read More The post Your One-Sentence Summary appeared first on Advanced Fiction Writing.| Advanced Fiction Writing
Most novelists don’t know their characters well enough when they start writing their novel. The problem is that you get to know your characters by writing about your characters. If you get to know your characters by writing the first draft of your novel, you’ll write the first 200 pages before you really know your... Read More The post How to Interview Your Characters appeared first on Advanced Fiction Writing.| Advanced Fiction Writing
AI tools burst onto the public consciousness last year with a new release of ChatGPT that seems pretty smart to most people. It’s not yet smarter than a human. But it’s surprisingly good. And it’s fast. And it’s cheap. I have no interest in writing my novels using AI. My novels should be mine, not... Read More The post Researching Your Novel With ChatGPT appeared first on Advanced Fiction Writing.| Advanced Fiction Writing
Zingers make you feel good in the short run. But they make your life horrible in the long run. You can get them out of your life for good with a few simple rules.| Advanced Fiction Writing
I read a book review once which began, “This book answers a question nobody is asking.” The reviewer thought that was a bad thing. He thought he was trashing the book. But in reality, that was quite an endorsement. If you want to make a difference in the world, you need to begin by asking... Read More The post The Question Nobody is Asking appeared first on Advanced Fiction Writing.| Advanced Fiction Writing
How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.| Advanced Fiction Writing
