Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

Dear Fellow Writer, I hope you're writing regularly and that you're happy doing it . Today we look at getting your own writing space and why it's so important to your creativity - and sanity as a writer. Click HERE to discover and peruse my Amazon books Keep writing! Rob@easywaytowrite.com Your Sacred Writing Space Getting what you want in this world requires an act of will over nature. If the natural untethered state of things is to move toward chaos, then humanity is here to inject order.  And to create order we must make decisions about what makes our lives better, more comfortable and more effective, if possible without causing too much strife and discomfort to nature, to what's already good, or to those around us. It's all very well having a Zen-like respect for the universe, and a belief in karma, but we humans are designed to be creative. And as we know from physics, nothing is created from nothing - it is all disassembled an...

Dear Fellow Writer, I hope you're writing and that you're happy. TODAY, my darling wife has released a new book on fiction creation: Dialogue - The Ultimate Writer's Guide 99 Cents  for ONLY 24 hours - then it goes up to RKP: $7.49 To follow up on the runaway success of her  Show Don't Tell  book, Robyn Opie Parnell has compiled a new look (and the final word!) on creating the best dialogue for your fiction. Remember, Robyn has had 94 books published by different publishers all over the world - so you can guarantee she knows exactly what she's talking about! 99 Cents  for ONLY 24 hours - then it goes up to RKP: $7.49 Dialogue - The Ultimate Writer's Guide MY NOVEL UPDATE: On Wednesday, after six weeks of 2000+ words a day, I finished the  first draft  of my latest crime thriller:  Purge.  It's come in at   75,000 words ,  longer than I expected. However, it may well double in size during the second draft - that's my th...