I learned that Sit-Coms just spit it out. On one episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, Raymond's Continue Reading
February 23, 2011
3 Types of Character Arcs: Choose the Best for Your Novel
How Does Your Character Change? You know your character must change somehow over the course of your Continue Reading
August 4, 2010
Time Line Helps You Plot
Time Line Helps You Plot I know that my new novel will take place over a 98 hour span of time. Continue Reading
July 16, 2010
8 Ways to Enrich Your Character
Character Revision: 8 Ways to Jumpstart a Make Over You have a first draft, but you realize that Continue Reading
February 5, 2010
Develop Sympathy with Character Traits 9
Use Character Traits to Make Your Character Sympathetic Yesterday, we looked at 9 character traits Continue Reading
January 25, 2010
5 Plotting Mistakes
Do you make these 5 plotting mistakes? Are you too nice to your characters? Low tension. Give Continue Reading
September 23, 2009
interior thoughts
Interior Thoughts Reveal Character I spent time yesterday adding more interior thoughts to a Continue Reading
August 26, 2009
Goal disaster in Novel Revision
A scene goal must have a showdown I'm revising my WIP novel and I'm at the end of the first Continue Reading
August 20, 2009
boring characters in novels
I'm worried. :-/ Are my characters boring? One-Note Characters One common difficulty is to Continue Reading
April 3, 2009
YWriter
While my WIP novel is out with readers, I thought I'd look at my process for this novel and how it Continue Reading
