The Lactating Armpit and How To Make Your Characters Have Different Voices
carriejonesbooks Voice is such a big deal for making memorable and believable characters in your story, but it’s one of the harder things to understand sometimes. As writer Rita Mae Brown…
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We are TOO Angry to Podcast Plus So Many Ways to Plot Your Story
I (Carrie) was at a conference one time and hanging out with a bunch of celebrity young adult authors. One author said he wrote everything down in an outline form…
The Dreaded -Ing
When I was a baby newspaper reporter, one of my editors, Grady Holloway, used to call me over to his desk. A lot. I loved Grady. He had this great,…
Everyone Wants a Piece of You – Including Us Writers
We live, if we ever let ourselves to really live, to hope, to fear, to elegies of beauty and pain, terror and hate. A woman on the street, a tourist,…
There Is Nothing Better than a Sexy Setting
Lately, Carrie has been talking to a lot of writers that she coaches and edits about settings. That’s because a lot of writers are blowing them off. So, she’ll read…