Succeeding

Succeeding

How do you know when you’ve made it? How do you know when you have succeeded? What is your definition of success? This can be with anything in your life: your marriage, your full-time job, your tennis game, whatever! But, of course, what I’m talking about right now is...
Author Websites

Author Websites

My sincere apologies to you! I did not have time to write a blog this past week because I was preparing a talk for the Washington Romance Writer’s Retreat this weekend. Therefore, for my blog today, I’m going to direct you to my talk PowerPoint...
Archetypes

Archetypes

Archetypes. They’re not stereotypes! I’m delving into creating characters for my next Zodiac novel and fooling with archetypes. Definitions Stereotypes are an oversimplification of a type of person—the evil, mustache twirling villain who does bad things for the pure...
A Controversial View of Piracy and AI

A Controversial View of Piracy and AI

Why do you write? With the revelation that Meta used a known pirate site to train their AI, I’ve heard so many cries of rage and bemoaning of authors wondering why they even write if their work is just going to be stolen. But if they don’t write for their work to be...
Writing to Trope

Writing to Trope

We all like to think that we write original stories that no one has ever written before. In a sense that’s true. On the other hand, it’s also highly likely that your story falls into a trope. According to Wikipedia, a trop is “a writer’s usage of commonly...