Skateboard fiction: Defining a genre

At last I’ve found my niche, and now, it appears, I’m creating a new genre. My niche is skateboarding. My genre is skate fiction. I’d like to say I’m in great company here but it appears I’m completely out on my own. I have read Blake...

Creating a Killer Story

Here we go: one simple graphic which will help you understand what a story looks like. I love this and it has inspired me to plot out a brand new story yesterday. It has also helped me figure out my own Story Fan (capitalised for a good reason, which I’ll talk...

More thoughts about Maslow and Character development

I love the brainstormer app. I love the wordle.net cloud maker tool. I love lists. I love figuring out systems which can help writers create great characters. I love Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs for understanding how people function. Can I bring them all together to...

The best writing apps ever…

I am an app-hunting monster when it comes to finding tools for writers. I have this stupid notion in my head that the perfect app will make writing easier – and it does, if only I got down to writing more than procrastinating! Anyway, at least I’ve wasted...

Nothing much happening?

You’d be wrong! I don’t have much chance to update things here, but I am all over the book of Face. So head on over to Facebook (or click the link on the right –> ) and see what beautiful things I’ve been sharing lately. Thanks – Mark...