Is Your Story An Experience?

by | Craft

I’ve been reading a book on game design (not because I want to design a game necessarily, but because that’s how I roll) and the author made a really fascinating observation.  When you’re designing a game, you need to think about the experience you...

Every Scene is a Story

by | Craft, Uncategorized

Without getting too terribly esoteric, I’ve been seeing a lot of holographic patterning in my Year of Cruise. To display both my geek and hippy-dippy tendencies, I mean “holographic” as in “whole in every part.”  If you cut a hologram in...

Star Wars: Plot Points In Action

by | Craft

I’ve recently put my first reference book up on Kindle, called Rock Your Plot: A Simple System for Plotting  Your Novel.  It details the process I use for pre-writing and plotting my novels.  It’s a simple, repeatable system for anyone writing any form of...

Story Structure vs. Reader Experience.

by | Craft

When I revise my work, or when I’m editing someone else’s work, there are two main elements I consider. The first is story structure:  what the story is. The second is reader experience.  This is how the story is told. Structure first. When I revise, the...