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…
Wednesday Writing Hints – How To Keep Readers Reading, Part Four
The main element when we write a book is that we want our readers to keep reading. So, I think I’m going to start what I like to call (Drumroll…
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”…