The 90-Day Novel Challenge

We can learn a lot from the 1947 classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Today, we’re focusing on how the storytellers use subtle mechanisms to introduce story elements long before they’re needed. Sometimes t…

“When I’m writing my book, sometimes I feel overcome with these emotions. Sometimes I even end my writing session feeling really dark or heavy. Is that normal?

You might be surprised at how often …

As we move into your final push to write your book in the 90-Day Novel Challenge, sometimes it’s helpful to start dreaming (just a little bit) about how you might publish your book. Remember that you…

Risk is like a bank account. Your reader will allow you so much before they break and walk away from the story. Use your risk wisely.

When you’re writing a book, if you’re going to stretch your re…

Writing is one of the few hobbies in which most people immediately combine their passion with the marketplace.

It’s OK to write for fun.

Use The Novel Matrix and the resources of the 90-Day Nov…

Are you ready to take your writing to the next level? What happens after you finish your manuscript, are you ready for that?

The Company’s Arche Year program is a 9-month program to put you in a p…

As you’re writing your novel manuscript, you may soon encounter the “Near Miss.” As your protagonist ascends the rising action of the third act, this is when you pull the rug out from under him right…

Perfection isn’t the goal. Right now, the most important thing is to get the story down on the page.

Special guest Alli Prince joins Brad for today’s episode to deliver some encouragement and prac…

With a value of more than $65 billion today, Star Wars is one of the most successful stories of all time. It’s also a simplistic story. From a story perspective, it’s not breaking any barriers.

We…

Tell me if this sounds familiar: you’re moving along through your manuscript when suddenly you need to know something–some factual tidbit maybe–so you hop over to Google find out real quick. Before y…

When you sit down to write, are you crippled by self-doubt? Do you feel like you’re not any good and your writing is just trash?

This advice has helped so many people: if you can’t write a good bo…

What do you do if your book manuscript doesn’t hit the word count that you hoped?

There are several solutions, but we’re going to focus on one: subplots.

Subplots are your tool to bring depth, …

Do you know that feeling when you’re “in the zone” with your writing, and the words just flow and time disappears? Psychologists call that phenomena “flow state,” and it’s real. Your brain is actuall…

You are exactly halfway through the writing portion of the 90-Day Novel Challenge.

Now is a great time to take a step back from the project and evaluate your progress. But that’s only helpful if y…

Have you heard about Einstein’s brain? Scientists found that the right and left hemispheres of his brain were connected.

And that’s exactly what your novel project needs.

The brain in the 90-Da…

It’s time for the protagonist to become a new person.

As you move through your novel manuscript, you may be getting close to the “Epiphany Moment.” This is the time for your protagonist to change …

Writing a novel is hard. Really hard. So hard that a huge majority of people who start a project like this one will never finish it.

But you will finish it. You’re doing something that most people…

If you’ve been enjoying these daily writing nuggets, we have good news: there’s more. A LOT MORE.

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It’s time to ruthlessly eliminate distractions from your creative work. What little distractions tether you to the real world and prevent you from fully immersing yourself in your writing?

We firs…

You are halfway through the challenge! Congratulations!

Don’t worry, you don’t need to be halfway done with writing your manuscript yet. There’s a little bit of cushion since we used the first two…