Writers are told to breathe life into your characters. But how? Some how-to experts claim that to write believable characters you must fill out page after page identifying every mundane detail of their lives. Is it wrong to do so? No. Some writers may need tool to learn who their characters are. Unfortunately, many writers…… Continue reading Breathe Life Into Your Characters
Tag: writing fiction
Without Sequels Your Reader Won’t Care
You’ve got a fantastic idea for a book of fiction. A great conflict drives the story and you write action scene after action scene in a burst of creativity. But without sequels your reader won’t care. No, not the sequel to the book. The sequels to your scenes. Sequel is one of the most important…… Continue reading Without Sequels Your Reader Won’t Care
A Writer’s Serendipity or How Research Saved My Book
As a blogger and science nerd, I try to keep up with science news from a variety of sources. Oddly, that curiosity rarely benefits my writing. My writing style follows a diagonal on the chart below: Lawful Plantser, True Plantser, and Chaotic Plotter. And that’s pretty much how my research goes, too. I start with…… Continue reading A Writer’s Serendipity or How Research Saved My Book
What Flavor of Success Do You Want
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines success as “favorable or desired outcome.” That’s like trying to eat a large designer cake in one bite. There are as many interpretations of that as there are people on the planet. And there are traps within personal definitions of success—traps where you give the responsibility away to others. As a result, it’s…… Continue reading What Flavor of Success Do You Want
Hits, Misses, and Challenges
It’s the beginning of a new quarter. Time to review the hits, misses, and challenges of my intentions for the last quarter. And as everyone knows, the last month of the last quarter was a doozy. This whole first quarter challenged me in unexpected ways. 1st Quarter Intentions If you recall from my post describing…… Continue reading Hits, Misses, and Challenges