Marketing Feelings

Jul 23, 2023 | Blog, Business of Writing, Writing

“Art is a container for your feelings.” Jane Friedman, according to David Gaughran. We all know that the best books make you feel. It doesn’t matter whether those feelings are happiness, sadness, excitement, anguish, or disappointment (unless it’s disappointment that...

Bringing Emotion to the Page

Mar 28, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

When I first started writing, I was told that if my character cries on the page, my reader was not going to be crying as she read that. If I wanted to bring tears to my reader’s eyes, my character’s eyes needed to be dry while they were completely torn up inside. As...

Are you an introvert–that’s okay!

Nov 24, 2019 | Blog, Life, Writing

Are you an introvert? My guess would be that your answer would be yes. I think that the majority of writers are. It makes sense since writing is an independent job that very few people do with someone else. I’ve been looking into introversion recently after hearing a...