Are You The Next Ted Dekker?
BIG NEWS! Kevin Kaiser, Ted Dekker’s literary agent in charge of global domination, has asked the question of who is…
Category: THIRST™ Methodology
I Officially Begin Writing MERLIN’S SHADOW
Merlin’s blade is gone. Whither has it gone? You’ll have to read book one to find out. You have a…
MERLIN’S BLADE 1st DRAFT FINISHED
I just finished my first draft of my very first novel: Merlin’s Blade, which is part of the Merlin Spiral.…
Optimistic Plotting – New Book Graphing Idea
Timothy Fish on his blog has an interesting article that talks about Optimistic Plots vs. Pessimistic Plots. As part of…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 5
Note that all of these THIRST values can be thought of as “entertainment” values. How much entertainment is the novel…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 4
Another question: What’s the difference between tension and suspense? I get my ideas from Sol Stein’s book “On Writing Fiction”.…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 3
Paul on ChristianWriters.com asked me a question about my THIRST™ graphs. Here is his question as well as my answer.…
A Book’s Readability vs. Sales
Steven Berlin Johnson wrote an interesting post about the readability of books. He graphed data that came out of Amazon.com’s…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 2
To commemorate my 50% milestone (be it ever so elusive), I am including the “graph” of my book using my…
Making the Reader THIRST!
Did I say THIRST in that previous post? That’s actually an acronym that I am using as part of my…