Things I Have Already Said, And Will Probably Have to Say Again
carriejonesbooks I have written about what happened to me my senior summer in multiple ways, the most recent time was in the anthology THINGS WE HAVEN’T SAID, which was released this…
September 2018
Talk to Me, Baby! Dialogue Help on Writing Tip Wednesday
It’s Writing Tip Wednesday and today we’re talking about talking. What’s that mean? Dialogue, baby. It’s that magic place where the characters get to speak for themselves. So, the number…
Mansplaining Buttfaces and Women’s Anger
The other week a man that I once trained gave me a piece of paper citing exactly what I once trained him about. He presented it to me like it…
Writing Tip Wednesday: Objective Correlatives. Show me. Don’t tell me, baby.
How do you write emotions without showing? It’s hard not to just write: Her heart sped up. She felt scared. Her stomach clenched. Because that’s a pretty easy and simple…
Dogs Are Smarter Than People Podcast: What Makes a Story Memorable?
Here’s our biggest tip for beginning writers. Ask yourself this question: WHAT MAKES A STORY MEMORABLE? It’s change. It’s how the hero of the story enters that story with something…