Come for the Mysteries. Stay for the Characters.
If you need NaNoWriMo prompts for characters, look no further! If I need a character who has more than a walk-on part, I also need a face I can see clearly to go with this character. If your creative spark has dimmed to a cinder and you need a few more characters, check out the… Continue Reading →
While writing my YA mystery, I noticed that my characters seemed to hold a lot of conversations in vehicles. Since the book is set in a rural county in Ohio, driving is an integral part of the lives of my characters. But I didn’t want to bore my readers. So I changed one scene from… Continue Reading →
My prompt this week is to prompt you to share your ideas if you need help brainstorming for NaNoWriMo. I’m not doing NaNoWriMo because November is a terrible month for me to expect to write 50,000 words. But I do love to brainstorm with other writers. So if you’re writing and find yourself hitting a… Continue Reading →
So happy to have author Rebecca Waters guest blogging again. This time, she isn’t here as a novelist. She’s discussing writing advice from her book The E’s of Writing. Good to have you back, Rebecca! Exercising the Writing Muscle There is a difference between being a writer and being an author. Writers may write as a… Continue Reading →
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