I think Milanote https://milanote.com is a terrific productive app. To demonstrate its usefulness I began to write an article showing how it could be used to manage a book project. I planned to create a demo board or two and show screenshots of them in the article. That was the…

I recently started a new book called Story Structure. My initial step was to start new files in two of my favorite apps: Scrivener and Milanote. A Scrivener file is to be expected since that is what it does: help write books. Milanote however, isn’t usually associated with book writing…

Stories are created by merging three separate creative processes: 1: Ideas 2: Story design 3: Storytelling techniques These three creative processes apply no matter the type of story: novel, short story, script or screenplay. The only difference between these types of stories is the output. The manuscript for a novel will look much different…

I’ve used just about every productivity app and project management tool available. I was able to fudge a few of them into something useful, but none of them were what I really wanted to use. These apps and programs tried to force me to think their way and were too…

Do you use the Wordflex app? Did you ever hear of it? As a writer, I use it constantly. What is it? Wordflex is a powerful graphical Thesaurus. You can find the app here: http://wordflex.com …

INTRODUCTION Just as words are the building blocks of sentences, and sentences are the building blocks of paragraphs, and paragraphs are the building blocks of scenes, so too scenes are the building blocks of fictional works. Scenes, however, aren’t simply a collection of paragraphs; they must have a structure to…

Here’s a fiction writing problem. If you look through most books on fiction writing, you’ll find little on the importance of a character arc. The book may mention the story needs such an arc, but there is little more than that. Certainly, the book will not mention the importance of the…

Social media is an essential part of your book marketing plan and your branding. However, social media is a major time suck and most sites are next to worthless when it comes to marketing and selling your book. Nevertheless, you must persist in using social media in your marketing efforts. …