by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Please.Please, please, please.Everyone get out your manuscripts right now. Please make sure your main character is doing something to solve their problems. I don’t care whether or not they’re going about it in a good way. All I care about is that...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
A writer e-mailed me to ask, “How do you handle self-doubt and make yourself write?”Some days I don’t. Um, particularly in 2007 when it was rejection after rejection. Followed by more rejection. And then rejection that came completely out of the blue...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
On my author blog this month, I’m asking authors how they achieved their dream of being published. Everyone so far has said some form of “perseverance.” And I’m guessing if we polled 100 authors, they’d say the same thing.People who get...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
In response to a post of mine about main characters, a writer asked me, “How do you make an unreliable main character reliable enough for the reader to trust … without losing what makes the character who she is?”Yes, very tricky stuff.I was in an...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
A writer e-mailed me to ask, “What are your favorite books and why?”Holy cow, what a huge question.Since I don’t have time to spend hours writing this blog post, and since you probably don’t care to read my entire answer, I’m going to...
