Don’t Let Them Make You Sit Down
carriejonesbooks A long time ago, our daughter Em was taking karate, which was the only martial art available then in our town. She was eight years old and tiny. The instructor…
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What Makes A Story Memorable; Tips for Beginning Writers.
Here’s our biggest tip for beginning writers. Ask yourself this question: What makes a story memorable? It’s change. It’s how the hero of the story enters that story with something…
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…