My latest Super Secrets of Writing article is up at DreamForge Magazine of Science and Fantasy Fiction! If you’ve ever worried your characters seem like stick figures, let’s put some meat on their bones!
The secrets of 3D character generation are here, FREE if you read online! Check it out and enjoy my award-winning series, and all the other great stories and articles in this magazine!
I’m off to teach the first of my Super Secrets of Writing Suite Seminars in Vegas, baby! They’re all SOLD OUT, but if you’re attending the LTUE seminar next year in Provo, Utah, I’ll be teaching a new masterclass on this topic there. Register while you can!
Hi, Friends! I made a fun post today on Facebook–you can see the details below. I write my Super Secrets of Writing articles to shine a spotlight on story fundamentals to help writers succeed. This one, and the one before it on The Dark Night of the Soul, are your keys to deep stories that touch the hearts of readers. Learn how to deploy these mighty weapons in your stories, novels, and screenplays! Read the Super Secrets for FREE at DreamForge Magazine (but they’d love your support by subscribing if you enjoy what they do–they’re mighty amazing!). Here’s my post:
𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬 shouting, “Eureka! Eureka!”? You just might … after the lightbulb goes off from reading my Super Secrets of Writing article on Epiphany at DreamForge Magazine!
𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 online, or support and download!
Another Super Secret arises from my original online writing resource with over 𝟏 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖𝐒!
Click HERE to read!And why not check out my Best of Year award-winning novelette “Muzik Man”, Part 1 while you’re there, along with the other great stories! 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐒! Streak on over!!!
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A record milestone! My Super Secrets of Writing project to help emerging writers just hit 1-million views!
I started this free online resource after I won Writers and Illustrators of the Future seven years ago to help writers craft tighter stories based on solid writing principles. The award-winning results of those following my Super Secrets speak for themselves. And my runaway bestseller How to Write a Howling Good Story came from this project.
You can read all of the posts online–there’s over 5,000 of them–and I know those that have. But I’ve made it easy for you–I’ve distilled them into a book! One Hollywood producer told me she read every post, and that it took her two weeks. She said, “What you did for all those writers was very kind.” I’m just happy my writing principles and strategies have helped so many to achieve their goals and dreams.
Thank you to all that have followed and supported what I do. I appreciate you!
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My latest Super Secrets of Writing article is now available at DreamForge Magazine. The title? “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
The Dark Night of the Soul is a psychological condition psychotherapist Carl Jung experienced personally and taught theories about the transformation it produces when one successfully passes through it. Others followed. What’s more, it’s an essential element in deeply moving stories, and stories with emotional depth get noticed and remembered because they grip not just the mind, but more importantly, the heart.
How do you take your characters from descendance to ascendance?
Perhaps even into transcendence?
Read the article. Learn how to send your protagonists to hell before giving them their little slice of heaven.
I have another Super Secrets of Writing article, published in the May issue of Story Unlikely. My Super Secrets of Writing articles have won the Critters Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Writers’ Resource every year for the last six years! Thousands vote in these annual awards from around the world, so it’s quite an honor. And my free online resource where these all began is about to hit one million views!
This Super Secret helps writers with flashback transitions and how to NOT lose their readers in the time warp! Its title? “You Are the Wizard of Speed and Time, Part 2.” To read this one, you do need to subscribe to Story Unlikely, but membership has its awesome privileges! Join us!
Let’s do the time warp now! Click HERE to support what editor Danny Hankner says is the fastest growing literary magazine in the world. Over 11,000 subscribers in just a few short years. It’s growing faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive!
I started writing for DreamForge Anvil Magazine with their charter issue. Editor Scot Noel asked me to write a story for that issue, and he also bought my article on how I wrote the story, “Shaken, Not Stirred.” And he commissioned me to write a series of my Super Secrets of Writing articles for DreamForge to support emerging writers, something Scot and I are both passionate about. It’s been a great partnership.
Recently, DreamForge built a new website. With it came new improvements, like a bio page for each author published in the magazine, and links to everything they’ve had published in DreamForge. For me, that represents a total of twenty fiction and writing articles, with more to come. The image above shows you a sample of what the page looks like. But what’s really cool? You can click on any of the beautiful illustrations and be whisked away to the very issue the article or story appears! And they’re all FREE!
My mission has always been to help emerging writers by simplifying the craft of writing so writers know exactly what they need to do to create professional stories that have the power to get published. Accurate knowledge is power. These award-winning articles bring emerging writers all the strategies and tools they need to succeed.
Are you trying to succeed as a writer? Do you feel discouraged that your stories aren’t getting accepted by publishers, or do your indie works have lackluster sales? Trust me, these articles will help you pinpoint how to improve your writing so it can rise to the top. Or don’t trust me. Go check some of my articles out and decide for yourself. They may be free, but the strategies shared are pure gold.
If you like what you see, why not subscribe? There’s additional benefits for doing so, and it will help DreamForge keep bringing you great articles and fiction for years to come. Cheers!
Danny Hankner is the editor and publisher of Story Unlikely Magazine. He states it’s the fastest growing literary magazine in the country and I believe him. In just a few years time, Story Unlikely has gained over 12,000 subscribers and pays pro rate to writers! Subscribe and you’ll see why—he’s curated a genre-bending collection of literary stories by writers that can actually tell a story while filling it with heart.❤️
Danny is also a man of action that suffers no fools. Politically incorrect? No. He’s simply not afraid to express his common-sense beliefs and has fostered a magazine that allows writers to do the same. Danny is passionate and if he believes in something or someone, he’s not afraid to say it. I like straight shooters. You always know where you stand with them. They say what they mean and mean what they say.
Knowing this about Danny, imagine my joy the first time a Wulf Pack Writer showed me her acknowledgment for her submission to the magazine. This form on their portal tells everyone to get a copy of my writing book! They even posted the universal book link to make it easy for submitters to get 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. Crazy! I’ve never heard of such a thing. What’s more, it was a total surprise. Thank you, Story Unlikely!
Every author will tell you they’ve written a great book that will be the best decision you’ve ever made if you just pony up and buy it. But seeing a pro editor tell every writer submitting to their magazine that they need to get this book? That he’s endorsing it of his own free will to help you be the best writer that you can be? Danny Hankner tells it like it is. When an editor like Danny makes such a statement, you can take his words to the bank. Or, as my publisher Mark Leslie Lefebvre will tell you, study a copy and you can use these trade secrets to “make bank.”🏦
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 is my bestselling book that reveals new strategies in writing craft and storytelling that make stories, screenplays, and novels rise to the top. Get your copy through the link below and see for yourself why the editor of Story Unlikely calls it “the best book on writing he’s ever read.”⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Think you don’t need to market your work as a writer? Think again! Better yet, get inside tips on best practices from my award-winning Super Secrets of Writing Series! “You Can’t Stop the Signal, Part 2” is FREE to read at DreamForge Magazine of Science and Fantasy Fiction!
Here’s the editor’s comments:
“In today’s publishing world, writing the book is only half the battle. Readers crave connection, and even traditional publishers expect authors to handle their own marketing, from social media to building a following. Inspired by moments like Mr. Universe’s iconic line in the movie Serenity, this article starts where Part 1 left off, helping you continue to craft your brand, connect with readers, and build a platform that ensures your voice is heard.”
Writers! Get smart tips on building your Public Relations Station! You can’t stop the signal! In fact, you need all the signal you can get. 😊
I was the first guest on UPRN Talk Radio’s program “The Author’s Quill” when it launched. They recently had me back with my publisher and Writers of the Future judge Mark Leslie Lefebvre to discuss my career and how my bestselling book HOW TO WRITE A HOWLING GOOD STORY has been doing one year since its release. It’s a fun interview I trust you’ll enjoy! 2,216,489 live listens!
Some highlights:
1. We discuss the value of niche publishers, especially a boutique publisher focused on your success like Mark Lefebvre’s Stark Publishing Solutions has done for me.
2. We share how a publisher’s signal can increase your signal substantially when you’re still building your network of fans–they already have signal, programming, and branding built in that you can tap into!
3. John Goodwin, president of Author Services, asked me to tell the story behind the creation of my Writers of the Future Vol. 35 winner “Super-Duper Moongirl and the Amazing Moon Dawdler.” If you haven’t heard the story behind the story yet, it is certain to inspire you to meet deadlines no matter how crunched for time you may be.
4. And finally, the program host Joe Montaldo makes some statements about how many writers I’ve helped achieve their Writers of the Future wins through the lessons taught in my Super Secrets Workshop and my Patreon group, The Wulf Pack Writers. Joe has interviewed every contest winner for the last five years, so he knows what he’s talking about. Joe said many kind things about the effectiveness of my Super Secrets Workshop and what I’ve done to help writers make it to that Hollywood stage and workshop week. That starts around the 1 hour 19 minute mark.
Don’t miss this interview! In the Q&A at the end, you will find out what I believe is the #1 issue that holds writers back from getting published and winning prestigious contests like Writers of the Future. Getting past this common aspiring writer issue can change your destiny!
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