What’s Your Process?

What’s Your Process?

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...
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...
Getting unstuck with a mind map

Getting unstuck with a mind map

Do you think visually? Have you tried mind-mapping? I’m not normally a visual thinking, but right now I’m pretty stuck. I’m trying to write a Christmas novella and it’s just like pulling a square out of a round hole that I’ve jammed in there really hard. It’s not...
Following Tropes

Following Tropes

Something within me has always objected to using tropes. It seems so hackneyed. So been there, done that – by everyone and their second cousin once removed. And yet… I suppose there’s something to be said for using tropes. Technically, a trope is “any type of figure...
The Most Important Thing

The Most Important Thing

Sometimes it’s the most simple thing that can turn us on our writing heads. The article by Sharon Bially and published on Writer UnBoxed was one of those. She tells the story of when her son was asked by his elementary school teacher to complete the following sentence...