Packing Heat: Erotica Writing Tips & Techniques
http://packingheat.net
Book Depository
Bookmark Packing Heat
RSS Feeds
Subscribe to Packing Heat with Bloglines
Packing Heat: Erotica Writing Tips and Techniques
Packing Heat 109: Procrastination
Do you want to write, but you're not writing? What's stopping you - procrastination or confusion?<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 108: Obvious Opposites
Newbie Mistakes #4: Epithets and Obvious Opposites. Think about the face of a clock when you're trying to work out the ways in which your main character and love interest are similar and different, and aim for ten after six.<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 107: Infodump
As you know, Bob, infodumps are a big problem not only in novel writing, but television and movies, too.<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 106: Swifties
What's a Swifty? AKA: the adverb is not your friend.<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 105: Hey You
How often should your characters address one another?<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 104: Who's that Guy?
I was watching a movie with someone who turned to me during the last scene and said, "Who's that guy?" about the main character. Holy hell, don't let that happen in your story!<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 103: Titles
After a few years of hit-or-miss titling, I've formed a few rules for myself about titling new work.<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 102: Fleshing Out
Normally, you write "big" and then edit out all the extraneous stuff to make your story lean & mean. But what if you need to make your story longer? What if it's lacking detail? How do you flesh it out?<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 101: Double Duty Details
How do you decide where to spend your "detail budget" in a scene? What sorts of details should you provide, and when should you back off and move the story along?<< MORE >>
Packing Heat 100: Relearning Reading
In looking into ways in which to improve my reading speed and comprehension, I made some discoveries that challenged many of my most basic assumptions.<< MORE >>