What are your resolutions? Word?

What are your resolutions? Word?

  This is it folks, the last of the Great Questions to Start The Year! Woohoo! We made it! The last question I’m asking you think about as we start off this new year and new decade is the classic: Do you have any new year’s resolutions? And what is your word for...
The End

The End

James Scott Bell, begins his book The Last Fifty Pages, with the quote by Mickey Spillane: “The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” I love that quote and it’s so very true. It’s also very true that endings are hard. Damned hard! We work to...
Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

Sometimes when you write you just get stuck. No matter how well you plot, no matter how well you think things out beforehand, sometimes things just come to a sputtering halt in your writing and you aren’t sure how to go on. When that happens, I always find that asking...
Creating Your Character’s Arc

Creating Your Character’s Arc

With NaNoWriMo just a few weeks away, I’m working feverishly to get my next book plotted and ready to go so that on November 1 (well, okay, November 4 because November 1 is a holiday where I live and I’m taking that weekend) I’ll be ready to hit the page typing—kind...
Revisiting the Hero’s Journey

Revisiting the Hero’s Journey

In preparation for NaNoWriMo, have you thought of outlining your book using the Hero’s Journey? It is, by far, the most popular story structure. Hollywood movies use it all the time. It fits most stories, no matter the genre. I could use Harry Potter, the Wizard of Oz...
Getting Ready for NaNoWriMo

Getting Ready for NaNoWriMo

Happy Halloween! That’s crazy, isn’t it? It’s only the first week of October and already everything is suddenly Halloween crazy. Pumpkin spice everything is all around, you can’t escape it. But in the writing world, we are all looking to November and NaNoWriMo...