Fiction Fluency teaches Leonore how to fit the pieces together Meet Leonore–a creative spirit and music lover who discovered delight in her writing, and the tools to do it well, in an unexpected way. When an empty nest gave her time and opportunity, Leonore explored her passion for creating children’s musicals. But she soon realized […]
How do we abandon the concept of being good, or getting it right? How do we train ourselves to produce stories on command? Those are hard questions to answer, since no two writers are quite the same. But brains do have some common characteristics. Brains are all about recognizing patterns. Where no pattern exists, the […]
You can write faster than editors read their slush.
Every year, I go to a group of cabins in the mountains on the banks of the Mackenzie River here in Oregon for Ghost Story Weekend. We set the goal of starting Friday night and having at least one story ready to read out loud on Saturday night. Most years, pretty much every writer gets […]
This week’s episode of Sentence to Paragraph is the first of a series that will be looking at the various elements that need to be included in any successful first draft. Do your characters guide your writing or do you tell them where to go and what to do? Daryll-Lynne and Molly discuss how their […]
Molly and Daryll Lynne are back this week to talk about moving forward with writing that second draft! In this week’s episode of Sentence to Paragraph, Molly and Daryll Lynne frame their discussion of writing second drafts through the pantser/plotter problem. How does a discovery writer know when they’ve discovered enough and its time to […]
Welcome to this episode of Sentence to Paragraph and the first of a series of debates about how to piece a plot together! In this week’s episode of Sentence to Paragraph, Daryll Lynne and Molly exchange ideas and experiences about how they get their story ideas onto paper through using techniques of both the discovery […]
Join Molly and Daryll Lynne as they workshop some of the writing challenges they have faced in the last week. Characterization, conflict, and compressing every detail into perfectly plotted places might make story building feel like trying to weave a tapestry with a million loose ends. In this week’s episode of Sentence to Paragraph, Daryll […]
Join Molly and Daryll Lynne as they seek out what it takes to pull together a cohesive premise that drives the action of a story Letters from Molly’s editor and Daryll Lynne’s takeaways from a weekend at the Oregon coast illuminate the importance of premise in this week’s episode of Sentence to Paragraph. Listen below, […]
Curious on how to move forward after receiving disappointing criticism? Join Molly and Daryll Lynne as they confess their challenges with getting feedback and how they use critiques in the editing process. In this episode of Sentence to Paragraph, Molly and Daryll Lynne examine the often vulnerable world of revision. It can be hard to […]