How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page
carriejonesbooks So building a sympathetic character on the page is a lot like being a sympathetic character in real life. This sympathetic character is basically the opposite of a butt-hole. There’s…
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Control Your Tells, Don’t Give In To the Passive
Babe, I know you don’t want to talk about showing vs telling any longer, our massive series, but it’s really really important. It’s sunk many a cool book idea, stopped…
Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes
There’s this really great book for writers by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi called The Emotional Wound Thesaurus. It came out way back in 2017. As they write in their…
Dive Into The Conflict and Make Your Book Blurb Sing
Two weeks ago, we started talking about how to write a book blurb for your story and began with the first step, which is a hook. You can check that…
Baby bears are the new bison and how to write a book blurb
Last week, we started talking about how to write a book blurb for your story and began with the first step, which is a hook. You can check that out…