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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. ...more

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Randy Ingermanson's Blog: Advanced Fiction Writing

The Success Equation

Nearly six years ago, in the January 2015 issue of my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine, I wrote an article on what I call “the Success Equation.” In that article, I identified four crucial factors that determine whether you succeed or fail as a writer.

And what is “success?” I’ll define it right from the get-go as the amount of money you earn from your writing. You can define success differently, if

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	How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method 4.25 avg rating — 2,068 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Fiction for Dummies by Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author), Peter Economy 4.11 avg rating — 1,472 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing Book 2) 4.34 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Havok Magazine 2.2 by Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author), Charis Ditamore, Benjamin Lucas Powell (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fifth Man (Oxygen, #2) by John B. Olson (Goodreads Author), Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oxygen Series Box Set: A Science Fiction Suspense Box Set by John B. Olson (Goodreads Author), Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Men and a Manuscript: Three Writing "Gurus" Discussing Craft, a Shifting Market and What it Takes to Create Successful Fiction by Larry Brooks (Goodreads Author), Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author), James Scott Bell (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oxygen (Oxygen, #1) by John B. Olson (Goodreads Author), Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 712 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Double Vision by Randall Ingermanson, Randy Ingermanson (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Power of Story : Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life

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Randy Ingermanson made a comment on What If Your Story Is Unconvincing? " I should add that I had worked on that first novel for two and a half years. Then I realized that it simply had too many fatal flaws and I set it asid ...more "
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Quotes by Randy Ingermanson

“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

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“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

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“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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