Understanding story structure has eluded me most of my writing life. Or perhaps I should say I have been on a life-long quest to understand the fundamentals of what makes for a good story and why. I now understand the most fundamental quality of story and I call it story force. If you write stories, then you need to know this. Continue...

You want to create a blog. You've heard that you'll need a domain name, but you don't know the first thing about them. I present my top 10 tech tips to help you sort through the chafe and figure out what really matters. Continue...

In Part 1, I explored how you can combat The Nopen Paradox by ensuring you always have a way to record your ideas. Here in Part 2, I present an even better solution. Continue...

We're making some improvements to the look and feel of PieceWorx Writing Studio. Here is a preview of some of the new themes we're working on. Continue...

The world is full of overnight successes, right? And you'd like to be one of them, right? In this article I will tell you the great and guarded secret to becoming an overnight success. I will pull back the cover and reveal the one best kept secret of successful people--like a magician who tells you how the trick is done. The successful elite won't like that I'm sharing this, but they aren't the ones I'm trying to help. Continue...