Come for the Mysteries. Stay for the Characters.
My previous post was to encourage you to let your imagination soar during NaNoWriMo. My prompts for the month will help you with this task. First I have NaNoWriMo prompts for plot. Below are suggestions to bring propulsion to your plot if you find it bogging down. Your main character makes a new friend. Your… 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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