Dancing With the Muse – An Introduction to the Six Core Competencies of Successful Storytelling
We are inundated with writing wisdom. It cascades around us like political fallout, right and left, plotter and pantser, light and dark, first person and third, commercial and literary, nuanced and smack in your face.
How to unblock. How to craft compelling characters (an alliterative gem in its own right). How to write scenes. How to write genre fiction. How to not make your English teacher turn over in her grave. …

John Francis is an ex-military pilot, turned fulltime writer. John feels his military background gives him more than enough ammunition to tell great stories. And yes, he does like using that as a pun.
John’s interests include creative writing, fiction, and action adventure.
John also enjoys writing military fiction (which he can draw on from personal accounts), police drama and he’s the author of many short stories in various genre’s.
Our writing group first met John on the 10K Day for Writer’s. Since then we’ve created a writer’s support …

Passion.  It can go a long way in your writing.  All too often writers fail to put words on paper and call it writers’ block.  But sometimes it goes deeper than that; sometimes its a loss of passion about your writing.  Afterall, if you aren’t writing with passion, the words often won’t come and if they do they’ll be forced.  Forced words never match up to words written with passion and they will read with a forced sense–the reader will know.
I’ve recently had the honor to become friends with a …