This month, we’re talking about ways to approach plotting your story, but you also need to consider where that story is set. If your setting feels generic, it will be hard for the reader to imagine actually being there, and thus taking part in the story. Think about the place where you live, or places […]
Today is wet, rainy and cold. A week ago, everyone was wearing short sleeves. There’s a saying about Texas weather — if you don’t like it, wait a minute and it will change. The same should be true of weather in fiction. It’s easy to overlook weather and default to sunny and temperate weather throughout, […]
Hi everyone! This is a bit late. I usually do a post the evening before a book launches, where I wax philosophical about what I learned from writing the book, and where this whole crazy writing journey has taken me. My book came out a week and a half ago. Due to a number of […]
