by Mark Cheverton | Mar 8, 2018 | Writing Tips
As those of you who read my Minecraft-inspired novels know, battle scenes are a big part of my stories. In my earlier books, I really didn’t understand the purpose of the battle, other than to raise tension, but over the years, I’ve realized that...
by Mark Cheverton | Mar 5, 2018 | Writing Tips
Hi everyone. I wanted to talk with you about something I’ve slowly been learning and getting better at, I think, as I write more books, and that’s sentence structure. When I go back and look at my very first books, all of which you can no longer...
by Mark Cheverton | Feb 28, 2018 | Writing Tips
There’s a rule in writing, and of course, whenever I say there’s a rule, I’ll think of multiple ways of breaking it, but so far, I’ve never broken this rule, and it goes like this: Rule #10: If your hero needs a gun at the end of the...
by Mark Cheverton | Feb 26, 2018 | Writing Tips
I wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned when it comes to writing exciting and engaging dialogue. In some of my first novels, my dialogue was compared to a microwave burrito (not my best review, but one of my favorites). After receiving that rebuke, I...
by Mark Cheverton | Feb 26, 2018 | Writing Tips
Learning how to show your story to your reader, rather than telling them about it is difficult. I struggle with this in every book I write, because telling is easy and showing is hard. Sometimes, telling is useful to do in your story. I’ve used it to tell the...