What will your characters do?
From across the country for the past few weeks, we’ve been seeing how people react to needing to give up normal activities.
If you’re writing a novel, that information might prove useful. While I doubt your story involves a global pandemic, you can still apply these insights into human behavior.
If your novel has characters, it’s likely they … Continue reading
Now what will you do with it?
This past week, news came of the death of a novelist whose name appeared on numerous dozens of books. For decades, each debuted on the best-seller list.
But that’s not how he started. The opportunity arose when his wife took a job that had her work the late shift. Once, he’d put his children to bed, what … Continue reading
… including its clichés.
How well should you know your fiction genre? Well enough to know not only its expectations, but also its overused elements.
If you’re writing romance, you should be familiar enough with what others have published that you avoid like the plague the well-worn technique of having two potential love interests literally bump into each other.