by William Miller | Apr 20, 2022 | Writing
My Thoughts on Plot (Everything Wrong with the Hero’s Journey) the article? That’s an interesting digression from my novel. 🙂 And I have lots of thoughts about plot, but maybe not enough for an article. The main thought is that it’s a literary “Sacred Cow.” I...
by William Miller | Dec 4, 2021 | Writing
If you want to make a living as an author, you need to study and become an expert in 5 very important foundational areas. These five foundations are key to becoming a best seller. All of the authors I know, who are making a living with their fiction, have these 5...
by William Miller | Apr 25, 2020 | Writing
“All stories are the same!” Joseph Campbell helped popularize this idea in his seminal work the Hero With A Thousand Faces. His contention is that all stories share the same framework. Only the names are different. I’m here to tell you; that’s wrong! The Hero’s...
by William Miller | Jan 22, 2020 | Writing
If you’ve studied story telling at all, you’ve undoubtedly run across the Hero’s Journey. You may even be under the impression it is the ONLY story model and that ALL stories are actually just retellings of the Hero’s Journey. To his credit, Joseph Campbell did a...
by William Miller | Sep 17, 2019 | Writing
The real reason you never finish a book. This is sort of a follow up post to my recent blog on the Secret Success Formula for Writers. Tell me if this sounds familiar? You’ve spent six years working on the same book but you never seem to finish. Your hard drive...
