Randy Ingermanson

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Randy Ingermanson

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I'm a novelist, physicist, and fiction teacher. People around the world call me "the Snowflake Guy" because of my wildly popular "Snowflake method" for writing a novel.

I've published 6 novels and won about a dozen awards for my writing. I'm a theoretical physicist with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. I publish the world's largest electronic newsletter on how to write fiction. I run the software division at Vala Sciences, a biotech company in San Diego.

Why do I do all this? Because I like to. Life is too short to do things you don't like to do.
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What Happened In This Scene?

I’ve run a critique group for years and years. Every member of the group typically brings one scene to each meeting to be critiqued.

By far the most common question I ask after reading a scene is: “What happened in this scene?”

It seems like a simple question, but it covers a lot of ground:

How is the lead character’s situation different at the end of the scene from the beginning of the scene? How do Read more of this blog post »
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“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.

I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world.

I refuse to let anything get in my way.”
Randy Ingermanson

“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.”
Randy Ingermanson, Writing Fiction for Dummies

“People would question anything having to do with God, but they wouldn’t question their own questions. They would challenge the authority of a theologian, but they wouldn’t challenge the authority of their buddy who claimed he had read a book that disproved the Bible.”
Randy Ingermanson, Transgression

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Jo Murphy Randy, What is the definition of a Christian author. Do you actually have to talk about Christianity in the book? Jo


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Peg Brantley Hey, Randy! Good to see you on Goodreads!


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