by Jill Williamson | Oct 16, 2012 | Writing
Guest blog by Susie May WarrenThere you are, you’ve got a blank computer screen, and the smallest tickle of an idea, something you’ve read, or seen, some question you think might be interesting tackled in a book. But where do you go from there? How do you...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 12, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonOn Tuesday I talked about labeling your characters. I had labeled my Captives character Mason as an analyst. And I sometimes compared him in my mind to Mr. Spock from Star Trek or Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory to help me write his...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 9, 2012 | Writing
by Jill Williamsonphoto©2009 Bradley Gordon, FlickrAt a writer’s conference I attended, the brilliant Susie May Warren suggested that when you start thinking up new characters, you should give them a label. Susie is the author of many books and owns My...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 5, 2012 | Brainstorming, First Drafts, Genres, Plot
Looking for fresh plot ideas? Well… there probably aren’t any. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As I’ve said before, there are no new ideas, just fresh ways of writing them. The book, Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations by Georges...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 2, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonHave you ever been reading a book and noticed that sometimes a break in a scene is depicted by asterisks or some other fancy symbols, and sometimes there is only a wide space before a new scene begins? What’s the difference between the two, and...
