Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals
carriejonesbooks Without knowing the backstory, we wouldn’t know the emotional goals of the character, the why for their tangible goals. Instead we’d be reading and thinking, yeah, he wants this. So…
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The Magic of Numbers – How Novelists and Writers Can Use Them For Impact
I know! I know! We’re writers not accountants or mathematicians, but there is a great lovely magic to using numbers in our sentences and paragraphs. What a lot of people…
Don’t Write Like the Undead
Sometimes you’ll read a book and you’ll think—um, did a vampire write this? That’s not because it’s sexy and sparkling like the Twilight vampires or sexy and bloody with a…
Self-Doubt is an Evil Demon, Banish It, Now, Writer Babies!
Failing one time? It doesn’t make you a failure. Failing 1,000 times? Still doesn’t make you a failure. You’re only a failure if you decide to be.
What Makes A Sexy Beginning and Emergency Poop?
I was not going to make it to the house. Not with this kind of poop.