Greetings from Downunder. This site aims to provide you with inspiring and educational writing articles and encouragement with your writing.

Introduction - Who is Melinda Rose Goodin, and why is this site called "Crossing the Threshold?"

What's new?

Writers' resources

• Locus sales spreadsheet - updated 16th January 2010. A spreadsheet of five plus years of Locus sales announcements, to help novelists track who sold what to whom, via which agent. Available as an Excel spreadsheet (with free Excel viewer) and .pdf (with free Acrobat Reader software).
  (This resource is now listed on Preditors and Editors as a recommended site)
• Agent research gateway - links to agent blogs, directories, brave scam hunters and their warnings, recommended reading and other resources.

Writing articles

• "The hero's journey: a path to plotting."
• "The hero's journey: a path to plotting. Examining "Lord of the Storm" by Justine Davis."
• "Archetypes in the Hero's Journey"
• "Scene and sequel"
• "The 34 step program for unpublished authors"
• "Using the Tarot to break writers' block"

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updated 16th January 2010