I can remember in my early days of writing, not the early ones when I was 12 years old and wrote stories on a typewriter I bought at a garage …
Quick Skills: 5 Essentials of a First Chapter
There are a lot of checklists for building a first chapter, and sometimes they can get overwhelming. MBT has an advanced checklist we use to help people build their Frasier …
Conversations: First Chapter Essentials
“I’m angry with you!” Sally said as she sat down. She was smiling, so I frowned. “You let me write the first chapter before I was ready.” “Oh, that,” I …
April’s Writer’s Challenge and The Mountain’s Children
Congratulations to Delores Topliff who won the March writer’s Challenge with her delicious story “The Mountain’s Children” (Challenge: Give us an argument!) “Let her go!” Raymond Young Bear shouted, running …
Don’t be Fooled, Part One: All That Glitters
April is notorious for fooling us. It starts out with April Fool’s Day practical jokes and is followed by spring-winter-summer-spring weather. We think it is springtime and summer-like temperatures show …