The Battle For Word Count
carriejonesbooks I am having a hard time writing today. John Wayne in My Head: Understatement of the year, right there, Little Lady.Thanks Mr. Wayne, dead movie star, and inner Carrie Jones…
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Realistic Dialogue and Halloween Parties for Fourteen Year Olds
One of my favorite criticisms is when people say to writers, “Your dialogue is not realistic.” The reason this cracks me up is because have you ever really listened to…
THE END OF TENSION TALKS! How to Increase the Tension in Your Story
In my earlier posts these past couple of weeks, both Steve Wedel and Mark Del Franco had some interesting things to say about point-of-view and tension. So, in this final…
Thrill Me, Baby. Thrill Me. Let’s Talk About Story Tension.
My first three books are hardly suspenseful in that Marvel movie way. There are no car chases. There are no end-of-the-world scenarios. They’re stories about identity and love with a…
Writing Talk Wednesday: The Scene
The Scene It’s this element of structure for the story. We all write them, but sometimes it seems like this overlooked aspect of our stories. I’m not sure why this…