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Previous Issues Of The Saturday Storyteller
How to Get Better as a Writer Every Day — and write like Stephen King
Read Time: 5 minutesI used to think Stephen King was an idiot. Years ago I consumed King’s memoir, On Writing, which offered advice for emerging storytellers. At the time of its digestion, I was simultaneously devouring a handful of King’s novels, from The Long...
10 Tenets for Every Writer Who Wants to Quit Their 9-5 Some Day
Read Time: 2 minutesMy boss wouldn’t let me choose the cream cheese. We were getting bagels for a sales training. I grabbed the strawberry and plain schmear. But despite being his number one sales rep for years, my boss wouldn’t let me pick the flavors. He demanded...
10 Strange Rituals that Famous Writers Use to Fuel the Muse
Read Time: 2 minutesWant to be a more productive writer? Maybe all you need is a different approach to free your creative spirit? Here are 10 Strange Rituals that Famous Writers have Used to Fuel their Muse. Maybe one will work for you... 1/ Hang upside down Dan Brown...
Are You Guilty of Hoarding This Valuable Asset?
Read Time: 2 minutesI married a bone collector. This revelation came to light when I opened a drawer and discovered a pile of teeth. Apparently my wife had been saving our children’s baby teeth. Teeth are not really bones but they might as well be. They look like...
How to Find Your Writing Voice Without a Single Keystroke
Read Time: 4 minutesWould you rather be famous for: 1/ WHAT you write about or2/ HOW your voice sings on the page Both can be yours. Because cadence can elevate your writing beyond countless wordsmiths fighting for attention - and the good news is you don’t have to...
Overcome Writer’s Block Anytime Using this Simple Move
Read Time: 2+ minutesI look like a rabid beast when I dance. Legs twitch. Elbows fly. Hips don’t lie. What’s crazy is that I feel the music — except that feeling translates into movement that could hurt somebody. Also I look stupid dancing and I hate looking stupid....
Two Questions You Must Answer to Reach Your Creative Potential
Read Time: 2 minutesTonight I am camping at a lake in the wilderness. I used to compare camping to being on an unfilmed episode of Naked and Afraid. But then I moved to a cabin in the woods. Anyway my family loves camping, and I love them, so I camp. One year ago...
The Missing Piece You Need to Fast-Track Your Craft
Read Time: 2 minutesI must accept the feedback you gave me. Because in last week’s survey... You said what you’d like to see from me in the future: Yes on more fiction writing tips Yes on personal & creative insights Yes on fiction writing class under $1MM You...
6 Mind Tricks that Make Readers Love Your Writing
Read Time: 4 minutesDo it. Please… There, I just gave you one mind trick in the above lines. I just gave you another. Are they working? I just did it again. Fine. No more games. Because you’re here to unlock the writing secrets that compel reading spells. So without...
What to Do When the World is Plotting Against You
Read Time: 3 minutes Hair was never a good look for me. Photographic evidence surfaced when I showed my kids this photo from a high school yearbook. My daughter giggled. My son proclaimed, “Maybe you do look better bald.” While that may be true, I still went into...
The Creative Secret to Hooking Readers on Page One
Read Time: 4 minutesMy pants malfunctioned in the bathroom. I blame Kenneth Cole, not user error. Because minutes before a business meeting, I flushed the toilet, started shutting my fly, but the zipper’s slider body derailed from one side of the tracks. Cue panic...
3 Ways to Make Your Story Stand Out Even if Somebody Steals Your Idea
Read Time: 4 minutesI stole the money. Five bucks here. Ten there. Twenty was rare. But she never seemed to notice, so I kept making withdrawals. Until one day… she panicked. She swore she had more cash in her wallet and she needed it. So she asked if one of us took...
An Open Letter from Your Villain
Read Time: 1 minuteTo whom it should concern: I’m the devil you need but don’t want to exist. Don’t dare challenge that. Why else would you write an entire story trying to stop me? Hell, I’m lucky if I survive your story. Yet my purpose here is not to beg for...
11 Ways to Give Your Fiction Writing an Unfair Advantage
Read Time: 3 minutesWant to write stories that make readers lose sleep? The kind of stories that earn you five-star reviews, book awards, and best-seller status? Well, I’ve got news for you. Because if you haven’t yet figured it out... writing fiction can be a real...