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Episode 018: The Writing Process with Derrick Ferguson

November 26, 2014

Derrick Ferguson returns to discuss the writing process. Listen along as Perry and Derrick discuss how they write their books, how often they write, how they plan them out, and what sort of resources they've found helpful for plotting, writing, etc. This episode also includes an announcement about the upcoming AMAZING ADVENTURES, a 4-book box set featuring books from not only Derrick and Perry, but also Mark Bousquet and Joel Jenkins!

Check out the following resources mentioned in this episode:

Derrick's Master Character Profile
Lester Dent's Pulp Paper Fiction Master Plot
Dean Wesley Smith's Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain
Write Away by Elizabeth George
On Writing by Stephen King
Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Story by Robert McKee

Pre-Order AMAZING ADVENTURES: 4-BOOK ACTION-PACKED BOX SET featuring Derrick Ferguson's Dillon and the Last Rail to Khusra, Percival Constantine's The Lost Continent, Mark Bousquet's Gunfighter Gothic Volume One, and Joel Jenkins' On Wings of Darkness! Only 99¢!