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Sep 11

Become a Newsletter Boss Part 1

Today’s marketing is all about building relationships. Readers don’t want to be marketed to—they can spot a sales pitch a mile away

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Sep 6

#NoFilter: Free Your Writing

We each go through life with filters, or lenses that affect everything we do. As writers, those filters can adversely impact our writing...

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May 22

Organizing Your Writing Life

Tips for writers on how to organize their work.

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May 22

Organizing Your Writing Life: Finances

Ideas for how writers can organize their finances.

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May 20

Organizing Your Writing Life: Marketing

These are the tools I regularly use to organize my marketing:

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May 20

Organizing Your Writing Life: Production

As I see it, "production" includes everything that goes in to creating your product. So for me, that includes: Story Concept Marketabilit...

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Mar 25

How to Create a Character that Lives and Breathes

Whether you're writing a character or plot driven story, no one's going to want to read your book if your characters are lifeless.

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Mar 23

Shazam! Beat Sheet

I’d call Shazam! a combo between a Golden Fleece story (Hero goes in search of one thing, and ends up discovering himself) and a Rites of...

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Mar 9

How a BS2 Can Help You Plan a Character- or Plot-Driven Story

Recently I talked about the difference between a character-based story or a plot-based one, so let’s look more closely at how it can be done

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Feb 16

Isn't it Romantic

Save the Cat beat sheet for the movie Isn't it Romantic

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Feb 16

Little

Save the Cat Beat Sheet for the movie Little

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Feb 16

MIB: International

A Save the Cat Beat Sheet for the movie MIB: International

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