Be Brave Friday! We’re starting a new podcast super soon
carriejonesbooks This podcast is going to be called LOVING THE STRANGE and I'm allowing Shaun to actually be Shaun, which means he will swear. Someone will probably get offended. And that…
January 2021
Shaun, the Oreo Thief, Takes Over the Blog
It’s Shaun, taking over the blog again. Oh, writer’s block, why dost thou come to me every Thursday afternoon when I am in desperate need of an idea for this…
Transform Your Character and Make Your Story Rock
Stories help shape how we think and make decisions, provide order via narrative structures that are familiar. There is comfort in that familiarity.
Making Your Story Believably Bad Ass (and your characters too)
In both real life and stories, you don’t want to make things so unbelievable that you don’t make sense. Things need to be logical.
Assumptions Suck in Books and in Real Life
Loving yourself and loving your way through it has a lot to do with forgiveness, but it’s okay to sometimes struggle with the concept of forgiveness, whether it’s about forgiving…