Does Your Form Match Your Function?
carriejonesbooks Thoughts on Writing Action and a Little Bit on Pacing So, I’ve been talking a bit about action scenes lately. And one of the big adages that writing coaches and…
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Don’t Make Your Readers Bad Swoon
Writing action scenes means picking details. Readers, have you ever read an action scene and it made you feel dizzy? You are not alone. This happens when the writer wants…
Ideas aren’t the sexy gods we think they are. Gasp!
The sexy place is the actual writing. Almost every time that I go to a school visit and am asked questions or when I’m interviewed by newspapers, I get asked…
Showing Character’s Interior Lives
Write Better Now If you’ve been hanging out with me this past week or so, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been talking about emotional interiority in writing characters for our…
Elements of Pacing Your Novel
There are a lot of components to pacing in your novel. You can think of it as: It’s linked to your novel’s structure in those individual scenes and how those…