How to Use a Paragraph

Hello SErs! Harmony here 🙂 While today's topic might, at first glance, seem basic and obvious, it has more to it than what shows on the surface. For certain, when I wrote my first book, I didn't think about paragraph structure or use at all. I just wrote. And then my learning curve began. In …

How to Set Project Targets in Scrivener

Hello SErs. Harmony here. While P H Solomon is our resident expert on all things Scrivener, today I'd like to share a tool that I came across earlier this year, and it has made such a difference to me. ... Also, it stops my work area looking like the the picture to the left! LOL. …

Careful Who You Kill

Hello SErs. Harmony here. My current WIP is the first time I've written first draft without doing any editing. None at all. At first, I found it tough. But by now, having reached near the end, I've seen how useful it can be ... even a life saver. Early on, a character called Jenny popped …

Expansion Pack: Fairytales

Hi Gang, Craig with you again. We’ve spent some time talking about character arc in the past year. My last three posts were about The Hero’s Journey, also known as the Writing Monomyth. I’m not quite ready to drop that yet. In the video game world, sometimes the developers offer expansion packs. These provide an …

Friday Writing Question: Where do You Start?

Hello SErs. Harmony here. Happy Friday 🙂 Before I get to today's question, I want to tell you a joke (yeah, sorry about this) ... A guy brings a squirrel into a bar and sets the cage down. The bartender says, 'What's that?' 'A mystery writer.' 'What? That looks like a squirrel.' 'Yeah,' the guys …