Pocket Full of Words

Yeah, my birthday is almost here, and I decided this year to celebrate by giving presents to other people. And not just on my actual birthday, either. I’m giving away presents every day next week, plus a couple of presents starting today.
So what are your presents?

Day One (that’s today): Any two of my e-courses [...]

The course is done, it’s in the shop, and it’s available now.
So… what’s in Page-Turning Scenes?

The two critical parts EVERY scene must have? (Page 13)
 

The FIVE [...]

Getting close now.

I’ve hit an important milestone with Page-Turning Scenes–my planned “finished” wordcount. Rolled over 15,000 words today.
I’m not finished. There’s so much that’s important in writing a good scene, and while it always looks simple on the surface, it’s when you dig deeper that you discover termites in the foundation and bugs under the rocks.
I’ve [...]

Got 3000 more words today. And I’m tossing in a bit I wrote on Internal Conflict for everyone to peek at. All the snippet copyright and no-quote rules apply.

Internal Conflict
Now we’re showing more, hiding less. Internal conflict is the character’s fight with himself over something he wants but can’t have, has but [...]

I’m really, really pleased with what I got today. I wrapped up all five types of conflict and how to use them, and now I’m into how to choose which scenes to write (Storytelling).
This flew today. Now I need to go figure out how I’m going to edit SILVER DOOR. That came [...]

Here’s a little snippet from How to Write Page-Turning Scenes.
Here is an example of the simplest of all possible scenes. Omniscient narrator, no characters, no props, one change. (I have thrown in time, but could have done the scene without it and had the same result. I just happen to like light [...]

It’s already 30 pages long.
Already…

First there was the book deadline.
Then there was the fact that I forgot April 15th is coming, and needed to get seven tons of paperwork to my accountant.
So today, finally, after a week of math and papercuts, I’m getting to have some fun. How to Write Page-Turning Scenes is underway. [...]

I’m revising like mad, but because I’m behind my planned completion dates on both SILVER DOOR and HOW TO WRITE PAGE-TURNING SCENES, I’m going to multitask a little here.
If you have any questions about writing scenes, or if you have a specific problem you trip over when you write scenes, please post them here.
I know [...]