My fall schedule is firmed up and I'm excited that I'll be teaching my popular Become an Idea Machine class again, starting Monday, October 16, 2017. I hope you'll join me for three weeks of super-intensive story idea generation! Maybe this is true for you, too, but in the fall I get a huge burst of energy, hence why I've gone and developed a whole new website to help me promote my class. It's always been the time of year where I want to buckle down, focus, and make strides o

This blog post was previously published on the now defunct Renegade Writer blog. It's an oldie but goodie, still relevant today. I've made a couple minor edits, but otherwise here it is in all its previous glory. Enjoy! Like many freelancers, you probably want to sell more stories this year, and one key element to meeting this goal is having stories to tell. And like many freelancers right about now, you're probably scratching your head wondering how the heck to find these st