Idea Into Story

Thoughts from the Front-Lines of Fiction and Real-World Survival
Idea Into Story
Bob

Anatomy of a Scene

This is the opening scene of New York Minute— the event that starts everything in motion heading toward a bloody showdown a week later, when

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Idea Into Story
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A World-Wide Pandemic?

The Hot Zone was a #1 bestseller when it came out in 1995. It also got me thinking. When we deployed overseas one of the

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Idea Into Story
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Goodfellas; and Barge?

Since every idea has been done, a job of the writer is to absorb as much idea and story from the world around them. Not

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Idea Into Story
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Write What You Know?

We hear that all the time. Since I was abducted by aliens, I wrote the Area 51 series to describe the mothership and what they

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On Writing: Dumb and Dumber

I mentioned in a previous post about ideas that title is important and how my first book published, Eyes of the Hammer, failed in that

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Clear and Present Danger?

Great title, eh? I listened to Mary Higgins Clark speak one day and she said a title must invite the reader into the book. It

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Idea Into Story
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Idea Is Not Story

I often see writers who are concerned about someone stealing their idea. The problem with that is that every idea has been done. I know

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