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The annual Life, The Universe, and Everything writer’s conference is being held this year February 11-13. It’s chock full of panels and presentations from working authors. And this year you don’t have to live within driving distance of Provo, Utah to go because they’re doing it all online (thank you, Covid). I will be delivering

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Become A Story Idea Machine

Now’s your chance It’s here. I finally figured out how to: Hold the Novel Writers Academy courses Give you one-on-one guidance (not canned videos) And still accommodate my writing schedule and commitments The course that’s open for applications is called Create Story Ideas That Beg to Be Written. It’s purpose is to transform you into a story

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What you need as a storyteller

One of the most important things I ever learned about telling stories was in Orson Card’s weeklong boot camp where we “workshopped” stories by doing zero workshopping. Zero critiques. In fact, critiques were verboten. Instead, Card asked us to simply provide a report of what he called the three grunts a reader makes when things

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