I’ve been trying to work on a short story at Bria’s instigation. I’ve got a basic plot line and some conflict thrown in. I know what the hero and heroine were like as kids, but now that they’ve grown up, I barely know them any more.
I have a general idea of how they’ve changed since [...]
Faceless Hero
August 1, 2008
KISS
March 30, 2008
I have been working on the Flower Queen’s Daughter story. I decided I needed to dig deeper and figure out the heroine’s storyline and what her own journey looks like. So far, I detailed conflicts and beats for the first four scenes. My real issue is with keeping things simple and preventing them from becoming [...]
Shouldn’t I be writing?
March 25, 2008
So, I got an reply email from DH after I sent him to let him know I fixed a couple things on his website:
“Shouldn’t you be writing? “
Doh. Caught procrastinating again. He knows how I get when a puzzle is put in front of me.
To be honest, I have been running a lot [...]
Thursday Thirteen: Conflict Building
March 12, 2008
13 Possible Short-Term Problems
I brainstormed a bit today on putting together short-term problems that would pull the hero and heroine together yes provide some conflict on why they might not be the best match at first glance. I’ll readily admit that many of these were heavily influenced by romance novels I’ve read in the past. [...]
Frustrated
March 11, 2008
Ok, so I had this great aha! moment and now trying to work with it, I keep running into a brick wall.
I spent a good chunk of time today taking the writing exercises at end of Chapter Five on Conflict in Leigh Michael’s book On Writing Romance. I got a bit closer to figuring [...]
