by Fiona Ross | Jun 26, 2017 | Articles
On the nose? They’ll punch yer lights out If you are so unsubtle as to mention fighting yer demons, or his, or hers, or theirs. Screenwriters, don’t, please. Not unless you are strictly within a supernatural, vampire or fantasy genre, and safely enclosed...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 26, 2017 | My Fiction
‘What you got Marsha?’ ‘Someone sent me a card. It’s mine. Get off.’ ‘Who’s it from?’ ‘Get off! Hey!’ ‘It’s blank.’ ‘It’s a Valentine, dummy.’ ‘You gotta boyfriend...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 26, 2017 | My Fiction
Two writer friends discuss the difficulties of getting published. “You need a good beginning.” “How about, It was a dark and stormy night?” “No! Cliché! Cliché! Cliché!” “You talk about clichés with those exclamation marks?...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 23, 2017 | Articles
Genre-Rama Since I’m working on an adventure comedy animation story right now, I thought I’d collect ten animation movies with heart that inspire my writing. I love genre movies. They often take a bad rap. I don’t think the term ‘B Movie’ is officially used any more,...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Articles
Second Skin, With Warts Calloused old hack I may be (fingers not soul, we hope). I think I’ve grown the extra skin of resistance every writer needs to survive the slings and arrows of outrageous feedback, but even I find it hard these days not to be pulled...
by Fiona Ross | Dec 18, 2016 | Articles
Spoiler Alert. This blog post is about me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Ha ha. I follow thought leader James Altucher. He called one of his best-sellers,”Choose Yourself.” I love that. Wish I’d thought of it. He mostly writes about “Me” and I love...
by Fiona Ross | Sep 9, 2016 | News
Announcing the publication of my new book, Writing Fiction – What I Wish I’d Known When I Started. I’ve been pounding away at this game for over ten years, now, like the rest of the world. (Update December 2022, I’ve put a new cover on it. I expanded the content...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 25, 2016 | News
Costa Rica has been on my bucket list for decades. When I saw this opportunity to combine Costa Rica with screenwriting, I couldn’t resist. To be honest, I felt a bit daunted to launch off into the unknown. I spent the whole flight worrying about whether I had...
by Fiona Ross | Mar 27, 2016 | Whimsy
Working the werewolf story once more. A writer’s journey is not necessarily linear, even with a map. Well, mine isn’t, anyway. Up hill and down mudslide. I made my first animated GIF to celebrate wiping out 1500 words of progress to change the storyline....
by Fiona Ross | Feb 25, 2016 | Writers Apps
Wattpad writers! Ever wondered how the high fliers on Wattpad get those stratospheric reader numbers? Not 10k, not 100k, not 1m, but shed loads of millions? Want to know how they do it? So do I. (Got you there for a moment, didn’t I?) Toggle out of writing mode...
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