How streaming broke television

A few years ago I decided to publish my 2020 serial No Adults Allowed as a paperback and ebook. As with all my major projects, I’d written it in Scrivener. While I love Scrivener as a writing tool, it doesn’t really work for me as a design tool. Exporting a pretty book is harder than it should be!…

You’ve planned what you’re doing, you’ve started putting words to the page, and you’ve published some chapters of your serial fiction project. So…where is everyone? Part 4 of our Crafting serial fiction mini-series attempts to grapple with that exact question. In here you’ll find: * Finding readers…

While rummaging through my back catalogue last week, I stumbled upon an old post called Planning your story’s big finale. Allow me to indulge myself by quoting my own writing: “Eighteen months in, I can see the end. It’s just peeking over the horizon, still a fair ways off but approaching with alar…

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” When journalists and reviewers frame a title as a question, it intrinsically suggests the presence of significant doubt; otherwise they would simply state it as fact. So, is Deckle a Sc…