Tricks Great Game Masters Know but Writers Don’t

Tricks Great Game Masters Know but Writers Don’t

Have you ever heard about pen-and-paper roleplaying games? We’re talking Warhammer, Dungeons and Dragons, Cyberpunk, 7th Sea, and the like. A group of people sitting at a table and telling a story together. The game master (GM) serves as the narrator, the players play...
How Corporate Methods can Make Your Writing Dreams a Reality

How Corporate Methods can Make Your Writing Dreams a Reality

What are your writing dreams? To get published? To earn a full time living from your writing? To see your book on a shelf in a bookstore? Or are you one of those rare individuals who write for pleasure alone? Whatever the answer, you might be setting yourself up for...
The Secrets of Finding Real Storytelling Gems

The Secrets of Finding Real Storytelling Gems

Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/11-Turn-Worldbuilding-Into-Stories.mp3 With enough practice, everyone can come up with new compelling ideas and whole worlds nobody else had visited yet. You can find a thousand great ideas...
How to Come up with Original Story Ideas

How to Come up with Original Story Ideas

Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/08-Original-Story-Ideas.mp3 Original story ideas set the best writers apart from the rest of the crowd. But a great paradox of fiction is that while our readers like to search for fresh and...
How to Beat Writer’s Block

How to Beat Writer’s Block

Listen to this post https://www.sebastianhetman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05WritersBlock.mp3 Writers can sometimes… They occasionally– That is, writers as a species– no– as professionals, they can sometimes… Aw, crap! So,...