DAN ALATORRE

Those of you who have been following along know I’ve been posting chapters of my unreleased manuscript An Angel On Her Shoulder every day so far this month.  Well… until today.  We took a little vacation from sunny Florida to go play in the snow.  So… Angel will resume Monday. Or Tuesday.  The next segment […]

That’s it. We have a lot to get done next year. I’m not gonna grandstand. I plan on keeping a (slightly) lower profile and getting the writing done. That starts with now.

Using my unreleased manuscript An Angel On Her Shoulder, I am showing you my techniques for reworking a story into a more readable, more enjoyable piece. It’s 45+ lessons in about 45 days. (To start at Chapter 1, click HERE, the prior chapter is HERE) To view it best, bring up the two versions in different […]

Using my unreleased manuscript An Angel On Her Shoulder, I am showing you my techniques for reworking a story into a more readable, more enjoyable piece. It’s 45+ lessons in about 45 days. (To start at Chapter 1, click HERE, the prior chapter is HERE) To view it best, bring up the two versions in different […]

I was tweeting just now and wondered if my favorite hashtags (disclosed HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE – the last one is what I use the most) were still the best to be using. It’s hard to know,  so I googled Top Ten Hashtags For Writers and looked to see if they all recommended the same […]

Using my unreleased manuscript An Angel On Her Shoulder, I am showing you my techniques for reworking a story into a more readable, more enjoyable piece. It’s 45+ lessons in about 45 days. (To start at Chapter 1, click HERE.) To view it best, bring up the two versions in different windows and view them side […]

We are explaining various elements of story craft using a new, unreleased manuscript of mine. YOUR input will help shape the final product. View the final version and the original side by side in different tabs, noting where we added and where we trimmed. At the end you’ll get my comments and analysis, learning my […]

Starting January 1, 2017, I am showing the process of changing a first draft into a finished book. Using my unreleased manuscript An Angel On Her Shoulder, we will see what gets kept, what gets cut, and how we roll out a story that immerses readers.  It’s 45+ lessons in about 45 days. (To start […]

How do you make a neat idea into a great story? You take the idea, get it out of your head and onto paper/into the computer, and then you refine it until it sings with the clarity of a tuning fork, going exactly where you want to go and nowhere else. You play your audience […]