In today’s video, Chris poses a question to all his viewers: Why do you write? Chris takes the time to explain his own motivations for writing and then asks his viewers the same question. Check out the video below and then comment with your own reasons for writing!
How Important is Chapter Length?
In today’s video, Chris addresses the importance of chapter length in your novels. In his experience, he’s found that readers tend to prefer shorter chapters. Check out the video below for more details and to hear what Chris has to say about it!
Quick Tip: How to Make Your Writing Funny
In his recent video, Chris talks about how to inject humor into your writing. He gives a simple pattern for doing so, as well as a few ideas for finding more humor techniques. Check out the video below for more details!
15 Day Novel Challenge Update and Parameters
In today’s video, Chris gives a few updates on how he is going to structure his upcoming 15 Day Novel Challenge (including a start date of November 11). He’ll also be adding additional prep videos ahead of time before the challenge starts. Check out the video below for more details!
15 Day Novel Challenge Intro
In this week’s video, Chris describes a new challenge he has planned, the 15 Day Novel Challenge. In a few weeks, he’ll start the challenge to write and edit Dark Lord Bert in a total of 15 days. Check out the video below for more details about the challenge!
How to Plot a Novel From Scratch Part 5
In this week’s video, Chris continues his series on how to plot a novel from scratch. Since it has been a while since the last plotting video, Chris goes back to his World of Cliche and talks about how he has fleshed out the story, setting, and characters in the meantime. He shows how letting…
Novel Marketing Podcast – How to Write to Market With Chris Fox
Chris recently appeared as a guest on the Novel Marketing Podcast, discussing how to write to market. Here are some of the questions covered in the interview: What does it mean to write to market? Why would authors want to write to market? What about the selling out question? What mistakes do authors make when…
Worldbuilding #5 – How to Make Character Names That Don’t Suck
In this week’s video, Chris talks about how to create unique character names that fit the genre and have the right feel for your book. He goes over four ways that names have developed throughout history and how you can apply them to your own characters. For more details, check out the video below!
The Creative Gap
In today’s motivational video, Chris talks about what he calls the “creative gap.” The creative gap is the gap between what a creative person sees in their head versus what comes out when they try to create something. How do you narrow that gap to produce better work? It mainly comes down to practice and…
How to Really Make it as an Indie Author With Chris Fox
Chris was recently interviewed on the Author Like a Boss podcast, a podcast for indie authors wanting to learn book marketing, self publish their books, and make a living with their writing. The topics touched on in this episode with Chris include: How much readers care about who publishes the stories Why women writers are…