There is a trap of discovery writing for inexperienced writers. The trap is this: discovery writing often turns into scattered story beats that aren't connected in a satisfying way for the reader. To fix your plot in such cases, use the "but, Therefore" rule to ensure a through line for each story ...
What Writers Can Learn From Magician: Apprentice
Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice was published in 1982, and more than forty years later I think it teaches fantasy writers some lessons that modern books often forget. So today I want to look at what this novel gets right—and a couple things I think it gets wrong. Magician: ...
Should I Start Over? 5 Questions to Help You Decide
"Should I start over?" is a question asked frequently by most writers at some point or another. It doesn't happen with every project, but I would venture to say that it's probably happened to everybody at least once. Every person has to develop their own writing process. And because the writing ...