Writing Popular Fiction

Join Lee on a creative journey as he shows you how to turn your blank page into a complete story.

• Craft a thrilling plot
• Switch narrator perspective
• Build complex characters
• Find your niche
• Write natural dialogue
• How you can make a living as a writer

• Writing Popular Fiction Introduction
• Where story comes from and what it's for
• If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first
• Why I love series fiction
• How I wrote my first book (part one)
• How I wrote my first book (part two)
• Book 2 and beyond
• How to not make your reader seasick
• Voice is not a metaphor
• Big words and big themes
• Plot is a rental car
• Robin Hood and the writers' room
• Character is king
• Ditch the bad advice
• Don't fall in love with your hero
• Why Hook Hobie is like my grandfather
• Reacher, and why he isn't boring
• To plot or not to plot (part one)
• To plot or not to plot (part two)
• Research is a dish best served cold
• Churning, smoothing and combing
• Don't forget you're still a reader
• The Killing Floor edit
• The book is the thing
• Why a Ford is better than a Rolls Royce
• Ditch the airs and graces
• How not to write dialogue
• A prose that trips forward
• Suspense is not like baking a cake
• Write the slow stuff fast and the fast stuff slow
• Hitching a ride on a strong first sentence
• The Sun Also Rises: writing time and place
• The sense of an ending
• The back end of a big machine
• Conclusion