Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Personal Trainer
Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Personal Trainer
Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…
Read more…Dive Deep with Emotion
Dive Deep with Emotion
Don’t you just love feedback from beta-readers or your critique partners that goes something like this: “I think you feel the emotion here, but the reader? Not so much.” Or…
Read more…How NOT To Mess Up Your Book Series
How NOT To Mess Up Your Book Series
Writing one book is hard. Writing an entire series of books, with their interconnecting subplots, arcs, and golden threads, weaving first book to last, is even harder. It’s like doing…
Read more…The Destructive Power of The Lie Your Character Believes
The Destructive Power of The Lie Your Character Believes
We are often our own biggest critics, aren’t we? Whenever something goes wrong, we feel disappointed, frustrated, upset, or hurt. The fallout might cause others around us to suffer too,…
Read more…Characters As Mirrors
Characters As Mirrors
I’ve been thinking lately about something that Angela and I touch on in all of our books: The Mirror of Real Life. It’s this idea that something in our stories…
Read more…Overcoming an Emotional Wound (Character Arc Help)
Overcoming an Emotional Wound (Character Arc Help)
Of all the pieces of backstory we should understand as authors, none are more important than our protagonist’s Emotional Wound. A powerful statement, but here’s why. Think about your own…
Read more…Stripping Down My Prose: Risking the Removal of Adjectives
Stripping Down My Prose: Risking the Removal of Adjectives
Happy to welcome Margaret McNellis to the blog today. She’s tried an interesting experiment with her writing to create stronger, tighter prose, so please read on! When I was a Masters…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus: Animal Rescue Worker
Occupation Thesaurus: Animal Rescue Worker
Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Deep Sea Diver
Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Deep Sea Diver
Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…
Read more…Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Human Test Subject
Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Human Test Subject
Jobs are as important for our characters as they are for real people. A character’s career might be their dream job or one they’ve chosen due to necessity. In your…
Read more…How to Tell If Your Story Needs a Resolution
How to Tell If Your Story Needs a Resolution
One of the last things you’ll consider for a story is whether to write a resolution. This short sequence of scenes (or a single scene) after the climax can conclude…
Read more…10 Methods to Make Your Character Likeable
10 Methods to Make Your Character Likeable
A key point of writing a successful story is to have likeable characters. This is usually a must for the protagonist, but the cast overall should have a number of…
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