To Watch and Listen To
Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (audio) Brandon Sanderson’s BYU Class on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014 (video) Writing Excuses Maggie Stiefvater’s blog post with links…
Books to Buy
If you are like me, you buy a lot of books. These are books that folks in the know have recommended. On writing for children specifically Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s…
Are You Writing Every Day?
I told my college students that the more they wrote, the better writers they became. I gave feedback within a day or two for short assignments and within two weeks…
Pixar’s Story Spine
The shortest and most helpful notes ever–or at least that I can remember–for writing stories. From Khan Academy’s Pixar in a Box, I wrote notes on the story spine, even…
Sources for Keeping Up with the Field
Things change. This is as true with books as it is in anything else. Today I was reading a Fifth Reader from 1884. To say that it indicates that educational standards have…
Storytelling from Pixar
Pixar published Storytelling in a Box through Khan Academy. This is free content that looks at the art of storytelling as Pixar does it, through the eyes of many Pixar…
Use Social Media
Sherrinda Ketchersid, a medieval Christian romance author, whose book Lord of Her Heart, was published this month, presented “Tips and Tools for the Writing Journey” to the Abilene Writers’ Guild on…