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A Screenwriter Gets Schooled in Novel Writing

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Today I’m guest posting on fellow writer Sara Letourneau’s blog about the similarities and differences between screenwriting and novel writing… I started my writing career as a television screenwriter, but my first love has always been books. So, after screenwriting for what seemed like an eternity to my young self (though I’d only been making […]


Is Your Idea a Short Story or Novel?

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Not counting my childhood Young Authors books (for a hilarious selection of those click here), I have written only one short story: a grim ghost tale featured in Pen & Muse’s Haunted House showcase. However, I’ve written many television episodes, which resemble short stories in length and substance. Writing a novel, by comparison, is like crafting a […]


The Novel Writing Process from a Screenwriter’s Perspective

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Welcome to the Writer Blog Hop! A Blog Hop is basically Tag for writers who blog. Meaning someone came up with the four questions below and answered them on their blog, then tagged three writer blogger friends to answer the questions on their blogs, who then each tagged three more writer bloggers… and so on […]


3 Simple Tips for Finding Your Story

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Some writers’ stories just come to mind, fully formed. Lucky them. It’s more likely that snippets of a story streak through your brain, like a naked drunk criss-crossing the football field, and when you chase it down to determine whether this tale is hot or not, it evaporates into thin air. Or maybe there’s a […]


A Novel is a Hamburger (aka The Difference Between TV Scripts and Novels)

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When I left TV to write a novel, I really believed I’d be done in a year. Why not? I already knew how to put together a story. Yet as an episodic freelance screenwriter, I’d only been working with the “meat” of a story, not the whole hamburger. That’s right, I’m going all food analogy […]