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5 days ago

Book Coach Corner: Killing It

Background: What Is Book Coach Corner? Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, TV shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read…

Writing

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Book Coach Corner: Killing It
Book Coach Corner: Killing It
Writing

5 min read


Aug 30

8 Takeaways from My Blog Vacation

Hello from Vacation Town! I’ve been doing book coaching as a part-time profession for a bit, but I decided early on that I would firmly set a boundary during summers. June-August would be for my own writing and rejuvenation time. As I write that, I can hear a phantom Boomer in my head saying…

Data Driven Fiction

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8 Takeaways from My Blog Vacation
8 Takeaways from My Blog Vacation
Data Driven Fiction

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May 18

7 Ideas for a Creative Week

“It’s reframing art-making as a process of becoming yourself, and the things that you’re making along the way are just the artifact of that process.” — Nicholas Wilton, Art2Life Art and Science Over the last few months, I’ve been working with an executive coach. It’s been eye-opening because the first thing that she…

Creativity

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7 Ideas for a Creative Week
7 Ideas for a Creative Week
Creativity

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May 11

Book Coach Corner: Treason

Background: What Is Book Coach Corner? Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, tv shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read…

Data Driven Fiction

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Book Coach Corner: Treason
Book Coach Corner: Treason
Data Driven Fiction

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Apr 13

4 Tips to Add Awe to Your Writing

Video Games and Story I love video games for the same reason that I love movies and books: they can tell great stories. Video games have the added advantage of putting you into the action of the narrative. This has gotten more and more complex since the days of the Atari in the 1970s…

Writing

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4 Tips to Add Awe to Your Writing
4 Tips to Add Awe to Your Writing
Writing

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Apr 6

Book Coach Corner: The Menu

Background: What Is Book Coach Corner? Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, tv shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read…

Fiction

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Book Coach Corner: The Menu
Book Coach Corner: The Menu
Fiction

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Mar 15

On Scene-level Microtension and the Greatest Prologue Ever Written

What Is Microtension? I’ve written about microtension with frequency. The word helps describe a simple aspect of storytelling that is crucial to a narrative but often remains in the shadows. What is it? Microtension is getting tension on every page of a story on a line-by-line basis. C.S. Lakin does an incredible job…

Writing Tips

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On Scene-level Microtension and the Greatest Prologue Ever Written
On Scene-level Microtension and the Greatest Prologue Ever Written
Writing Tips

9 min read


Mar 9

Book Coach Corner: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar

Background: What Is Book Coach Corner? Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, tv shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read…

Data Driven Fiction

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Book Coach Corner: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar
Book Coach Corner: Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar
Data Driven Fiction

5 min read


Feb 23

Turning Weaknesses into Writing Strengths

“Why is your voice so little?” I was made fun of a lot growing up for my voice. Any insult you can imagine for a boy with a feminine manner of speaking, I heard. You sound like a woman. F**got. Why do you talk like that? The list goes on and on. I was in third…

Writing

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Turning Weaknesses into Writing Strengths
Turning Weaknesses into Writing Strengths
Writing

7 min read


Feb 9

Book Coach Corner: The White Lotus (Season 2)

Background: What Is Book Coach Corner? Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to analyze books, tv shows, and movies. I will then dissect them in terms of story structure. As a heads up: there will be spoilers, and some posts may not make sense if you haven’t seen/read…

Data Driven Fiction

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Book Coach Corner: The White Lotus (Season 2)
Book Coach Corner: The White Lotus (Season 2)
Data Driven Fiction

8 min read

Tedd Hawks

Tedd Hawks

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I'm a Chicago-based writer and book coach who loves to write and help others write better.

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