I have an app on my phone to keep the notes on my ideas. I also use paper journals. How do you keep track of your ideas?
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10 Things I Hated About the New X-Files
I finished watching the new X-Files probably out of some compulsive need for completion. I like to finish things. And now, as a reward, I can write about 10 things I hated about the show. The Miracle Vaccine to Stop the Apocalypse. Actually, I could write down the whole episode # 6 as a complete and […]
Why “Jupiter Ascending” Appears Suicidal: Lessons For Writers on Plot, Structure, World-Building, Character Development, and Genre Boundaries
Imagine that your novel gets a $176 mil. movie budget. Once you recover from the expensive champagne and endorphin induced hangover, you suddenly realize that your story is half-baked at best! Huge gauges peer at you from the pages of your manuscript in plot (characters do things for no apparent reason), structure (climatic sequence […]
Why “Jupiter Ascending” Appears Suicidal: Lessons For Writers on Plot, Structure, World-Building, Character Development, and Genre Boundaries
Imagine that your novel gets a $176 mil. movie budget. Once you recover from the expensive champagne and endorphin induced hangover, you suddenly realize that your story is half-baked at best! Huge gauges peer at you from the pages of your manuscript in plot (characters do things for no apparent reason), structure (climatic sequence […]
How I wrote ‘Suburban Evil’.
Sometimes I wonder where our stories come from. There are stories that result from a little inspiration and a lot of hard work. Others, like the ‘Suburban Evil’, write themselves. One day I opened a new word document, put my fingertips on the keys, and wrote about Arthur Coppola, a lawyer strangely obsessed with domestic […]