Peopling Your Story

Peopling Your Story

(My apologies: I don’t have the audio version of this post this week. If you’d like one, please contact me and I’ll create one and post it. Thanks for your understanding.) How many people are in your books? To write a novel involves creating...
My 2023 Analog Toolbox

My 2023 Analog Toolbox

When we talk about analog tools, we can mean anything from the pen you write with and the paper you write on to worksheets, notecards, and physical bulletin boards. I like to think it means all of that. It is anything we use in our daily writing life that isn’t on...
Go Ahead, Be Mean

Go Ahead, Be Mean

You have worked very hard to make your main characters likeable… lovable, even. You’ve developed them into complete human beings in your mind and, hopefully, in your novel as well. But then… you’ve got to be mean to them! You’ve got to destroy their wonderful (or even...
Writing the Impossible Book

Writing the Impossible Book

https://meredithbond.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/magic-ribbon.mp4 Sometimes you think of an amazing story with fantastic characters. When you sit down to write the story, it flows like wine and goes down so easy. You revel in that incredible feeling of...