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 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...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 28, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonHere is my conclusion on rhetoric. I wrote two other posts on the subject. In case you missed them, we first talked about anaphora and amplificationrhetoric. Then we talked about asyndeton, climax, and metaphors. Rhetoric can add a lot of fun to your...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 24, 2012 | Writing
by Jill Williamson This past summer, Roseanna White wrote a great post called, What does the perfect query letter look like? This is an excellent post with an excellent example. I like examples. And I think you do too. So I scavenged up some more examples of query...
