Tips For Making a Thriller
carriejonesbooks Tips for Making a Thriller It’s writing tip Wednesday and I’m going to have some fast tips this week and next about making thrillers. Yes, you know those stories that…
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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…
The Why? Also HOLY CRUD, my book is coming out tomorrow and I am legit freaking out and having a total existential crisis post.
Maybe since I have a book coming out tomorrow, I’ve been thinking a lot about success and happiness because I think too much, honestly, but I recently found a TedTalk…
Writers, Go With Your Gut and Bring Out the Big Emotion
A lot of the times that Carrie works with writers, she notices that they are pulling back from the emotion that is happening in the story. Instead of allowing the…