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Table of Contents *** The water tower’s ladder swayed, swinging out several feet before rebounding and taking Joss so close to the tower he could reach out and touch it, but he didn’t dare unlock his arms.  One was hooked around the ladder’s side.  The other,  wrapped around a rung. “You’ve got to stop moving [...]

Table of Contents *** The red-and-white checkered water tower loomed above Joss, it’s sides marred with graffiti and rust.  He looked up the metal ladder attached to its side and gulped.  “No way.” “It’s totally safe,” his friend Holly said. “I don’t know.” Joss looked up, shaking his head.  Climbing the tower was a crazy [...]

Several dozen scanned images showing a sample of the revision process.

I’ll be putting up a free novella starting July 19th. Check back then for the first installment.

A story about a childhood monster in the bedroom closet

How to use Dwight Swain’s Motivation Reaction Units to construct compelling fiction.

High level ways to structure your stories including Beginning, Middle, End, The Hero’s Journey, and Dwight Swain’s Scene/Sequel pattern.

The list of the top five (now six) sites I use to come up with character names.

Check out the screen capture below.  I believe I had some pretty cool web pages.  I opted not to use a packaged blogging solution and created everything from scratch using the Zend Framework.  People even commented on how slick my site was, but there was one big problem … The problem was that I spent [...]

I’ve decided to convert my site.  The old version is still at ChuckHeintzelman.com.  I’ll clean up things here shortly.  Once complete I’ll point ChuckHeintzelman.com here too!