Your description can do so much more

Your description can do so much more

by | Aug 8, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

Description in a novel is more than just explaining to your reader where your characters are. Yes, it’s incredibly important to do so. No reader likes to be in a metaphorical black box listening to people speak. This is where they are if you don’t give any sort of...
What’s Your Process?

What’s Your Process?

by | Aug 1, 2021 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

How do you write? Do you plot? Do you use notecards? Sticky-notes? Fictionary.co? Or Plottr? Is Scrivener your go-to tool to plot and write? What’s your process and how tied are you to it? I’ve been thinking about that after working with a client who hasn’t been able...
Writing Gadgets

Writing Gadgets

by | Jul 25, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing

I love to organize stuff. My husband thinks I’m nuts because right now I am in heaven. We just moved into a new furnished apartment and the person who owns it is the sort who has to own every single kitchen gadget and utensil there is. Honestly, I look inside her (now...
Piling it on

Piling it on

by | Jul 18, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

When I plot out a story I am careful not to overwhelm my reader with too many things going on at once. Especially when it comes to bad things happening. Piling one bad thing onto another onto another could not only get to be too much for the reader, but at some point...
How do your characters grow?

How do your characters grow?

by | Jun 27, 2021 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

I’m in the process of plotting my next series of books. As always, I start my plotting with the characters because my books are character-based novels. I have to admit, with this series, the story kernel idea was one of plot and not character. But before I actually...