It Isn’t Too Late to Be There For Your Kids Our Most Personal Be Brave Friday Ever
carriejonesbooks So all of us need to reach up, reach out, be responsible. Inaction is often just as horrible as bad actions, but we can always climb our way out of…
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Throwing Poop on Your Landlord, Demon Texts, and Making Happy Endings
Carrie reads a lot of novels in progress and helps writers make those novels better and one of the big things that happen that keep a book from being super…
Writing With Dogs Who Slobber: The Three Secrets to Awesome Characters
So, you’re probably looking at the blog post title up there and thinking, “What?” Stay with me a second; I’ll explain, I swear. I’m going to boil down the basic…
Interplanetary Love, Massive Bathtub Ducks, and Sexy Subtext
Let’s talk about subtext. And to talk about it, we’ve got to define that baby. So here goes. Masterclass defines subtext as: “In day-to-day life, there are often wide gaps…
Being True to Your Authorial Voice
This week we’ve been talking about dialogue and voice, but we haven’t really talked about the most important part–being true to your own voice.When I edit other writers’ works, I…