• Challenge,  On Writing

    More Reading…

    So Chapter Two Another Day Off… As I talked about last night, my problems with most stories is not the writing. And I say so if I do have an issue with that. Been thinking about this as I read more and more stories with the same issue. Information flow problem. What do I mean by that? Simply put, most writers don’t know when to ease up on the details and back story and bring in the story itself, so I often don’t make it to the story even though the writing is great. That is an information flow problem. Can a hook help that at the opening? Not so…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    Information Flow Awareness

    Most Writers Don’t See or Understand Information Flow… It is the advanced skill of getting a reader the information they need a fraction of a second before they need it in a story. You can’t do this with the front part of your brain. Only creative voice can pull this off when left alone. Right now, Kris and I have watched the 2001 version of Ocean’s 11 and now we are watching it again while talking about it for the Kris and Dean show. After watching the movie a dozen times, studying it this last week, and now going over it again slowly, the movie has three and sometimes more…