Every writer has been there. You are writing a new story and find yourself written to a corner. Or you’ve written enough query letters for an agent and you feel that you have developed carpal tunnel syndrome and have nothing to show for it. You are struggling to get your first novel finished and published… Continue reading Writing Challenges – we all have them and what to do about them…
As I am writing this blog, I’m sitting at my daughter’s ballet class watching her and my niece participate in the school’s Halloween party. The school is playing music from every 80’s horror movie’s soundtrack. The horror genre gets more attention as we get closer to Halloween. So, I ask you – what makes a… Continue reading Horror novels – and a good scare…
Good morning and happy fall! We’re a balmy 60 degrees in the Nation’s capital! This weekend I plan to go pumpkin picking with my kidlets and hope not to get lost in a corn maze. As we get closer to the season of Halloween, I thought it would be a good time to talk about… Continue reading Villains and not the kind twirling a cheesy mustache…
As a romance writer I often find myself writing about feelings and portraying those emotions through my characters. One of the first emotional scenes I wrote had a young girl who in a very short amount of time lost everything. People who have read the book say that the chapters where this character loses everything… Continue reading Writing Emotional Scenes…
Where would Fred be without Barney or Lucy without Ethel? Or, for that matter, can you imagine Harry Potter without Ron Weasley or Tom Sawyer without Huckleberry Finn? These main characters have best friends or sidekicks who support them in almost every way, and I am aware that Huckleberry Finn got his own spin-off and… Continue reading The Sidekick…
Quick show of hands – how many authors out there have a free book on their website? I’m sure quite a few do. Now another quick show of hands – how many of you who have a free book on their website are also selling it on Amazon? And that book is part of the… Continue reading Free books and a novella…
Have you thought of the types of characters used in writing a storyline? We talk about main characters, secondary characters but what characters do we inadvertently create to keep a story going? Here are some of the types of characters that you see in stories. Main Character a.k.a. the Protagonist… The story revolves around the… Continue reading Types of characters…
