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Don't let self-doubt stop you from achieving your goals
Don’t doubt yourself so much that you cripple yourself as a writer. This just happened to me. As most of you know, I am a member of Prose & Cons, a multi-author blog…
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Top 5 Tips for Researching Your Fiction Novel
Research is extremely time-consuming, but well worth the effort. After all, you never want to get your facts wrong, even with fiction. Here are my top 5 tips for researching your novel……
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5 Tips for a Killer Ending
Most readers want a resolution, an ending to satisfy their need to see that everything worked out. That’s one way to go. Or you can go a different route. Who can forget movies…
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Five Elements of Thriller Writing… Creating Suspense and Tension in Thrillers
I decided to research tips about creating intense suspense, twists, and turns in thriller writing. If who haven’t checked out my earlier posts on sequel writing, you can review them here: Your Inner…
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Me and My Big Mouth! Write what you mean on social media, texting and emails
Have you ever written something and when you went back to read it you thought, “What the hell happened?” One day last week I thought I was writing magic. The words flowed beautifully.…
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Creating Characters in Fiction
In an earlier post Character Building– Why is JUSTIFIED justified in fiction writing I wrote about character traits. Today I’d like to delve a little deeper. Characters are the most important element of…
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Verb tenses in fiction writing, POV, Point of view of narration in fiction
Verb tenses in fiction writing are confusing, at least they were for me. Hence, why I’m writing this post. I’m hoping I can help, and not confuse you more 🙂 Let’s sidestep for…
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Freytag's Pyramid in Fiction Writing, Rejection Letters, What not to do on your blog/website
Lately I’ve come across several blogs and websites used solely for a place to complain. We, as writers, deal with rejection all the time. Rejection is hard. When that agent/editor/publisher tells you they are going…
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Showing structuring: scene, sequel, and MRUs in a novel
So many people enjoyed my recent post, The Importance of MRUs that I thought I’d show you large-and-small-scale structuring of a scene and sequel using MRUs. Actually, I got the most followers from that post.…
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A few thoughts on routine, inspiration and motivation
I am what you call a Pantser, meaning I don’t pre-write or outline. My creativity comes this way… Let’s suppose I’m done with my latest novel and have chosen to take a break…
