Writing Tip Wednesday – Every Chapter Needs to Have a Purpose, Darn it.
carriejonesbooks It’s Writing Tip Wednesday and here is my big advice. Ready? Every chapter in your story matters. Write every single chapter like it’s the first chapter. Wait. What does that…
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Swipe Right: Writing is All About Relationships – DOGS ARE SMARTER THAN PEOPLE PODCAST
Writing is all about relationships, right? The reader relates to the characters that the writer creates. The characters relate to each other. Relationships are tricky things. They are expansive and…
Writing Prompts For the Weird
Carrie’s brain is not the sort of brain that needs writing prompts. Carrie: I’m just weird. My brain needs constraints. Like when I wrote poetry, I loved forms like sonnets…
Don’t Be the Stereotype. How to Hook Your Readers With Memorable Characters
So, when you read a book, and you remember a book, a lot of the time it isn’t the plot that you’re remembering. It’s the character that has held you…
Dogs Are Smarter Than People – Carrie After Dark Is Embarrassing and Relentless. Be Relentless
Spoiler alert and Warning: This podcast episode ended up being so off-the-wall and kind of explicit because there is a ton of swear words because we recorded the “Random Thoughts”…