Just a heads up, I’ll be back to blogging regularly after January 1st, but for today, if you want, you can visit me over at the Novelist Inc blog, where I wrote about Doing It My Way.
Category: Articles
Trust Yourself
I started out as a completely solitary writer. I had no idea about groups like RWA, or even what a Critique was. I just decided I wanted to be a writer, so I started writing, and submitting. The first story I ever submitted was accepted, and published. And so went …
Trust Your Characters
Every writer has their own way of doing things — their own process. Be it pantser or a plotter, we all need to deal with characters. Characters are what we need readers to connect to in order to suck them into the story – and readers do not connect with …
What is Style?
Your voice is part of your style, and your style is part of your Voice. The two are separate things, but they work together to create an individual flavor for each author’s storytelling. Today we’ll cover the different aspects of style and how to recognize, and even shift, your own. …
What Is Voice?
Well, I announced on the 14th that I was going to do a workshop on VOICE for the LB & LI thing, and here it is! There is already some great information out there about Voice, but I know sometimes the information can be the same, it’s just the way …
LB&LI
LB&LI stands for Left Behind and Loving it. A series of virtual workshops that some of us who won’t be attending the RWA National Conference put on for anyone and everyone who wants to take part. PBW has done it a couple of times now, and this year I’ll be …
A little writing advice.
I’m not one of those writers who says, “I’ve always wanted to be a writer.” Or, “I wrote my first story in grade school, and knew I would write for the rest of my life.” I’ve always been anavid reader, and I can remember in High school I once thought …
Adventurous?
Kay People, Delilah is behind schedule, so her guest post will go up as soon as I get it, maybe tomorrow? Not sure, but when I get it, I’ll put it up. So for today, I’m going to talk to you about something else – Fantasies, and the opportunity to …