Writing Gadgets

Writing Gadgets

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

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?

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...