Category: Writing Inspiration

  • How to plot your novel

    How to plot your novel

    a nine-week course to help you plot and structure your novel Do you want to write a novel? Do you sometimes lose the thread of the plot? Have you tried and failed at outlining? Do you get off to a great start only to lose momentum? Then the Fiction Attic Press online novel writing class,…

  • Great Novel Planning Worksheets

    Great Novel Planning Worksheets

    Worksheets are a great way to organize your ideas for your novel and help you get the words on the page. Whether you want to begin a novel or you have a novel-in-progress, the Novel Planning Worksheets will help you generate scene lists, visualize your novel’s structure, understand what’s missing and what still needs to…

  • How to Become a Better Writer

    Read widely and well. Observe the world around you, and listen. Get outside of yourself. Don’t wait for inspiration to strike. Find a trusted reader to give you feedback on your work.

  • The Working Writer

    Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite writers. Not only because he wrote one of the most memorable passages about a place I’ve ever read, but because his work ethic was formidable. He went in not for glamor and preciousness, but rather for “hard, constant labor.”