May 18Member-only7 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…Creativity6 min readCreativity6 min read
May 11Member-onlyBook Coach Corner: TreasonBackground: 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. …Data Driven Fiction6 min readData Driven Fiction6 min read
Apr 13Member-only4 Tips to Add Awe to Your WritingVideo 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…Writing6 min readWriting6 min read
Apr 6Member-onlyBook Coach Corner: The MenuBackground: 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. …Fiction7 min readFiction7 min read
Mar 15Member-onlyOn Scene-level Microtension and the Greatest Prologue Ever WrittenWhat 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 Tips9 min readWriting Tips9 min read
Mar 9Member-onlyBook Coach Corner: Barb and Star Go to Vista del MarBackground: 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. …Data Driven Fiction5 min readData Driven Fiction5 min read
Feb 23Member-onlyTurning 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…Writing7 min readWriting7 min read
Feb 9Member-onlyBook 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. …Data Driven Fiction8 min readData Driven Fiction8 min read
Jan 19Member-onlyBe a Doer, Success Can Come Quickly and FuriouslyOur culture is quick to dismiss quiet, ordinary, hardworking people. In many instances, we equate ordinary with boring or, even more dangerous, ordinary has become synonymous with meaningless — Lynne Twist I got lucky in my first corporate job. It was a bizarre hybrid of a startup and a corporation…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
Jan 12Member-onlyBook Coach Corner: BarbarianBackground: What Is Book Coach Corner? Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to look at books, tv shows, and movies and dissect them in terms of story structure. …Writing7 min readWriting7 min read
