Three writerly ninja moves I've collected this week.

A list of my research books with cool tidbits before I retire them. (It’s my attempt to move on from toiling away on Act 1).

How often do best selling authors tell you what the character is thinking? (Spreadsheets inside.)

There are three states of information in a book. You either know: (1) More than the hero; (2) Less than the hero or; (3) The same as the hero.

And there’s one more state in a heist.

Here is some more research into why this is taking so long: I've unintentionally been tackling this story in three stages.

Today I have three small lessons I’ve collected and observed lately. In other words, three more things I am in the process of overthinking.

This post is a really long way of describing all about how I eventually stepped away from using spreadsheets to do the actual writing (and finally finish) my manuscript.

Here are two tools I’m trying that keep me engaged as a reader.

Not in real life, unfortunately. We're talking about book (of course).

What’s the proper order of descriptions? And when are you supposed to tell readers how tall a character is? These are the questions I never knew I’d have.

After 103 weeks in a row of publishing the weekly newsletter I took a week off. These are the doubts I had about the merit of recording the creative process of a first time novelist. Until I realized, this is the ultimate drama…because we have have no idea how it’s going to end.