by Jill Williamson | Jul 10, 2019 | Characters, Mailbag, Point of View
Today I’m are going to tackle two point of view questions that came to us through email. But first, if you are an Instagram user, this week I’m giving away a paperback set of the Kinsman Chronicles trilogy over on my Instagram account. Click here and look...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 8, 2019 | Characters
I’m home from Alaska, but I got in VERY late last night! This week’s post is part two of last Monday’s post. Before we talk about how to go about changing your characters at the heart level, I want to touch on how the logical path that we talked...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 1, 2019 | Brainstorming, Characters
I’m still in Alaska, so here is another post from the archives! One of the biggest struggles of starting a new story is feeling like you don’t know these characters yet. Just like how in real life there’s no way to magically understand someone the...
by Shannon Dittemore | Jun 28, 2019 | Antagonists, Writing
We have a fantastic mailbag question for you today, but first I wanted to say THANK YOU all for your excitement and congratulations this week. In case you hadn’t heard, news about my upcoming book hit Publisher’s Weekly on Tuesday. I cried. I did....
by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 24, 2019 | Brainstorming, Characters, Writing
Because I’m currently in Alaska with my family, I’ll be pulling posts from the archives for the next couple of weeks. This one caught my eye because of our conversation a couple weeks ago about 8 Tips For Creating Meaningful Conflict In Your Stories and...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 3, 2019 | Characters, Writing
Next week I’ll have a new post for you guys, but since I’ve been traveling here is another post from the archives: If you’ve been hanging around the writing world for very long at all, you’ve likely heard about the importance of having a strong...