The Hero’s Journey- The Call to Adventure

Last time in our discussion of the Hero’s Journey we looked at The World of Common Day. Today we will venture into the excitement of The Call to Adventure. The Call to Adventure In this progression of the ordinary Joe Shmoe becoming a hero, we see that there is a moment when the safety net

Words of Genius From the Master

Exercise 2: Character Dimensions

Today I am bringing to you one of the lessons from the Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook by David Maass. This book is chock full of amazing ways to refine your manuscript and give your story that extra je ne sais quoi. I’m enjoying this book so much that I thought I would show you

Contest Winner!

I just wanted to publicly thank C. H. Griffin for sending me this copy of Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass. She was doing a contest on her site and I was one of the lucky winners! She didn’t have to do it, but she did anyway. She has now both encouraged me and

50 FOLLOWS!!

Now that I have reached this milestone, I had to formally thank every single blogger out there who has followed my blog. I have officially reached 50 wordpress.com blog follows, and it means the world to me. Some of you might think it’s nothing to get 50 follows, but it is quite humbling to me.

Return of the Grammar Nazi- Part 1

“Great,” you say sarcastically. “Someone really posted about grammar?” Yes, yes, someone did, and this post might just save your life. There are a million books out there about grammar. (Okay, maybe not a million, but there sure are a lot.) The best of which, and most comical in my humble opinion, (and, no, I