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A seventh edition of my writing workbook, A Story is a Promise & The Spirit of Storytelling, is now available for $2.99 from Amazon Kindle.

This edition offers new, unique tools for creating vibrant story characters, how to outline a novel, and a guide to writing a novel, screenplay, or play, how to evaluate a manuscript, review a screenplay, and tools to revise a novel.
Essays on the Craft of Writing
About the Author

I've created a series of videos titled Oregon Writers Speak, which are also posted on YouTube. Here's my introduction to the video series. .

Elizabeth Lyon speaks about writing query letters. Elizabeth is the author of Manuscript Makeover and Non-fiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write.

Noted teacher Eric Witchey speaks about the craft of writing fiction.


Mike Thaler, author of The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and The Bully Brothers, takes viewers on a tour of his work studio.


Bill Johnson speaks about a process he calls Deep Characterization, the problems that happen when authors create character to act out the author's internal dramas.


Screenwritere Randal Jahnson speaks about the art and process of being a Hollywood screenwriter.

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