Four points to finding character voice

Feb 19, 2023 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

One of the hardest parts of starting a new book, is discovering your character’s voice. Genre fiction is best when it brings the reader deep within the story. As readers, we derive the most pleasure from vicariously living the life of the protagonist. Without...

Everyone’s a hero

Sep 11, 2022 | Blog, WIP, Writing

I’m sure you’ve heard that every character in your book considers themselves the hero of the novel. It’s why you need to know the goal, motivation, and conflict of every character (or certainly the primary and secondary characters). But can every...

Free Will

Jul 31, 2022 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

You’ve got a book to write. A story to tell. There’s something you want to say or an event or series of events you want to share. You’ve got a plot in your mind and you’ve got a really good idea or perhaps the entire thing planned out either on paper or in your mind...

A New Worksheet for before, during, and after you write

Dec 26, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you’ll probably know that I am the queen of worksheets. I love them. I use them. I even sell them! Well, as I was searching through my files this morning, I happened upon a worksheet I’d completely forgotten about and...

Supporting Characters

Aug 15, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing

How many characters are too many? I always wonder that when I’m writing. I love to fill my books with people. The fact that I write party scenes where there are supposed to be hundreds of people give me lots of opportunity to fill my books with secondary and tertiary...