Don’t Be the Stereotype. How to Hook Your Readers With Memorable Characters
carriejonesbooks 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…
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How To Make People Keep Reading Part Two
Last week, I talked about how I was going to be diving into revisions and sharing the path I’m taking via hints. The main element when we write a book…
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”…
Is That Even A Joke? It’s All About the Subtext
So, um, a lot of the time during the podcast Shaun will say something that makes Carrie have these huge pauses because she’s reading the subtext underneath what he’s saying.…
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…