Over the past few years, my writing templates and resources have gotten a few million views on YouTube, but I wanted to make higher quality materials that were more accessible. So I took some of my best resources and put them together in a Udemy Course on writing fiction. Write a novel in 3 months
I love launch emails. Launch emails are when all the time you spend on your mailing list becomes worth it. If you stick with me to the bottom of this post, I’m going to give you my 17-day Kickstarter email strategy, but first I need to take a hard right tangent. If you just want
Since March, I have been on 81 podcasts, assuming I have not miscounted. In every one, they ask me how I became a writer, and I’ve answered a lot of different ways, but the one I keep coming back to is that I never knew that wasn’t what you were supposed to do. When I
Love Scrivener but hate plotting your book? I’ve turned my advanced 24-chapter novel writing cheatsheet into a free, downloadable Scrivener template you can use for your own writing projects. This video will walk you through it. Get the Scrivener novel outlining template (download and unzip the .zip folder – then open the Scivener...
Quick Answer Free 24-chapter outline template for Google Docs — 4-act structure that avoids the saggy middle. Copy the template here. Need a free plotting template to help outline your novel? Want to write your book using Google docs? I’ve just created a detailed document you can copy to your own account and use to
If you’ve been following me for awhile, you may know I’m unfortunately cavalier and careless in any regards – I like to think of myself as a pirate or a rebel, and that sometimes gets me in trouble. This year I’ve been working with a new team of writers to put out more content around
A few days ago my friend said to me “I’m just so frustrated that when I try I still screw up.” I smiled at him and said “Of course you do. That’s the whole point.” And it’s true. Doing nothing leads to making no mistakes, but any time you try ANYTHING, you are going to
A lot of authors – almost all I’ve talked to – are very cautious about the money. Several writers have told me they don’t want to make money with their writing, even after publishing several novels. They don’t want to make a living with their writing, because then it would be a job; if they
Quick Answer The three books every writer should own: On Writing by Stephen King, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. (Updated May 2026.) When I decided I wanted to be a writer, I got my hands on everything I could about plotting, prose, story and character development and
One of the interesting things about insomnia is that you have all sorts of extra time to do things that you would never imagine doing in your entire life, like adding up all the costs of your novels against all the costs of your graphic novels. But, that is the world I live in many
A couple summers ago I decided to make a video series for teens who wanted to write novels. It was a free program and we had over a thousand students. But I realized, actually, it’s probably my best summary of all my writing advice and ideas, because I *tried* to keep things simple and organized.
In the past couple of months, I’ve been on A LOT of podcasts, and most of them haven’t come out yet. I’ve been recording 3-5 a week, and sometimes up to 10 a week for the past few months. People have often asked me how I do it, so I’m just going to make this
