A brilliant little writer’s mantra from Neil Gaiman: “You can write, or you can do nothing. But you can’t do anything other than write.”
Category Archives: Writing Tools
A Quick-and-Dirty Production Notebook
This blog’s all about storytelling, and today I’ve got something a little different: a quick-and-dirty notebook for production days.
Simple Hacks: “To Be” Verbs
We overuse the “to be” verb constantly. Finding ways to use it intentionally will sharpen our prose and add pleasing sentence variation.
Consider “We See”
Before all the Scriptnotes adherents come and castigate me, let me say in a clear voice, I AM ONE OF YOU. I just have some thoughts about “We see.”
Writing Tools: Google Sheets Tracker
A writing tracker can help you learn about your own best practices as a writer. I share my own writing tracker here, built in Google Sheets, that you can modify to your heart’s content.