by Renée J. Lukas As a struggling screenwriter, you’ve read books and articles, attended seminars and workshops, drawn charts and graphs. . .and you’re still as confused as ever about the craft and business of screenwriting. If you never read another thing about screenwriting, read THIS: the 5 absolute truths about screenwriting that you can [...]
What Novelists Need to Know by Renée J. Lukas (NOTE: This blog concerns getting published the traditional way, not self-publishing. We’ll have more about self-publishing in upcoming blogs.) Your manuscript is finally done. Now what? Before you buy the latest Writer’s Market or other reference book, or go online, you need to decide what your career [...]
by Renée J. Lukas Please forgive me, but I have to go on a little rant this morning. Usually, I can laugh off these things. But today, my hair caught fire reading a job board, so I have to share! As creative writers, our passion projects are often not our bread-and-butter until we get a [...]
by Renée J. Lukas In Screenwriting 101, you learn about the inciting incident, hopefully occurring in the first act of your screenplay. This is the moment where the protagonist can never return to who she was before. Something has changed the protagonist forever. You can’t underestimate the importance of the inciting incident. If you do, [...]
by Renée J. Lukas There seems to be no shortage of advice for writers these days. And isn’t that funny? It seems no other profession prompts such a deluge of advice. Can you imagine similar articles for cardiologists? “How You’re Operating on the Aorta All Wrong!” Everyone claims to be a guru who can help [...]
How to Decide What Medium Best Suits Your Story by Renée J. Lukas It seems like such a basic question. Once you have a killer story idea, what medium do you use to tell it? Some writers are lucky. They know exactly what type of writer they want to be, and the choice is clear. [...]
by Renée J. Lukas For me, characters are the most fun part of writing. Well-developed, dynamic characters also happen to be essential to a good story. So here are some tips I’ve learned along the way to help create characters that jump off the page. Maybe some of these will spark your imagination. . . [...]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Truth of Rom-Coms SPOILER ALERTS: There are many in here. Be warned. by Renée J. Lukas As we say a final farewell to February, I wanted to do a blog in honor of this past month—the month of Valentine’s Day, Cupid (or just a man-baby in a [...]
by Renée J. Lukas For me, going outside in the winter is like going outside on the moon without a suit. I don’t like to do it. When I do, I’m so bundled up, I walk like someone in a full-body cast as I take the garbage to the curb. To my neighbors, I’m [...]
by Renée J. Lukas When readers love characters, they want more of them. They may wish there was a sequel. After receiving several notes about my novel, Hurricane Days, it seemed that a sequel was in order. There were comments from readers who wanted to know "What was up with Adrienne? What happened in [...]
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