Nicholas Reicher

You’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo, but now you’re stuck. You have to write up a complete novel, and no clue how to do this,…

Let’s face it. Writers hate to edit. We want to write novels. We often have a backlog, and sometimes can’t resist poking in novel…

Here’s some random ideas to explore in the phase between writing your novel and the editing-rewriting process. Just try ten pages of each, and…

When I wrote my first novel, I didn’t know anything about story structure, conflict, or even the three act rule. I just downloaded YWriter…

As an experiment, let’s try taking a simple outline process, and see how to write an outline. First, come up with a bunch of…

If I were to teach writing as a college course (say, at Brown University – hint hint), I’d probably totally shock the faculty with…

As you’ve probably guessed from my Twitter feed, I’m a big fan of “want to learn to write? write five novels.” Doing it teaches…

It would be fun to have a nationally syndicated newspaper column, so I could be like Mark Patinken. I mean, you could just do…

There are times I think to myself, “nobody has the least idea how blogging works.” There’s one group that says you should NEVER write…

Some very thought provoking articles about writers who lied. Apparently, there’s more and more people shooting themselves in the foot by going around Hollywood…