Classifying Your Characters

Classifying Your Characters

by | Jun 23, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

My daughter is a Dungeon Master. Nope, that doesn’t mean that she tortures people, it means that she leads Dungeons & Dragons games. In fact, she spends a great deal of her free time playing D&D and writing new scenarios to lead others through. Yes, people...
Getting Through to the end

Getting Through to the end

by | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

I’ve recently met a number of people in the various writing “meet-ups” I attend weekly who have been working furiously away at stories for the past few weeks or even months. Suddenly, they’ve realized that they’re stuck. This blog post is...
Which type of editing do you need?

Which type of editing do you need?

by | May 19, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

Editing is a lot more complicated than one would imagine. Not only is it a multi-layered process involving the author and sometimes as many as three different people, but there are also a number of different types of editing. It can get down-right confusing! There was...
Using Your Setting Well

Using Your Setting Well

by | May 17, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

I’m awful at writing description. It’s one aspect of my writing craft that I’ve been actively working on for the past few years because I know how important description and setting is in a story. I read other people’s books and marvel at how they not only describe a...
The Importance of Names

The Importance of Names

by | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog, WIP, Writing, Writing Craft

I’m currently plotting my next trilogy in my Ladies’ Wagering Whist Society series. The first thing I do is work on my characters, because it is from characters that the plot grows. As I’m doing this, I’m getting input and help from my daughter, who has some very...
How to Write a Romance

How to Write a Romance

by | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

A friend of mine who writes horror was thinking of writing a romance novel as a change, so I thought maybe I’d give her a little advice. Let’s start with the definition of a romance – it’s a story where two beings (people/creatures/aliens, whatever) fall in love and...