Feb 19, 2019
Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/03NonNativeWriters.mp3 Gone Native Vivid images of caravans and boats filled with those fleeing from war or poverty, make it easy to overlook an entirely different migration taking place on...
Jun 4, 2019
A two-week-long vacation in Spain gave me plenty of time to reflect on how chronically stressed, overworked, and driven to the edge by my own stubbornness I was. And how spending more time on my writing, resulted in getting less of it done. I have to ask, what about...
May 3, 2019
Despite there being a whole trove of material on writing well, every publisher out there keeps being flooded with manuscripts repeating the same few mistakes over and over. This isn’t a problem. Rather, it’s an opportunity if you make your manuscript stand out. Take...
Apr 30, 2019
Every aspiring writer that has hope of being published or— later in their career— making it out as a full-time writer spends a lot of time reading about the craft. They, and by saying they, I really mean you (and me), read articles like this one, hoping to find the...
Apr 26, 2019
Find me a writer who doesn’t want to dazzle his readers with words. Any takers? No. That’s because each generation races to surpass the achievements of the one before. A lot of contemporary writers work to further the boundaries of the craft. But when they try too...
Apr 21, 2019
A few days ago, I wrote a boring and technical, but accurate post about how to tag your dialogue. Today, I’m writing a completely subjective and thoroughly opinionated piece about the leading causes of death among dialogue lines. Welcome to a ‘how not to’ guide to...
