This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “How do you develop your characters? Do you have a favourite kind/archetype?” We covered part of this before and my general method is in the post, Building Characters where I likened it to my daughter’s cosplay outfits. I skimmed the highlights, but that [...]
Character Development & Archetypes
May 25, 2012
Are You BFFs With Your Heroines? Could You Be?
May 18, 2012
This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “Could you be best friends with any of the heroines you’ve written. Is she/Are they someone you would hang out with? Why or why not?” I don’t know about BFFs, but my heroines are definitely the kind of people I’d hang out with. [...]
Hard vs Easy Parts of Writing
May 11, 2012
This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “Dialogue, narrative, exposition, or description? What’s your favorite part to write and why? Your least favorite and why? What do you do to make your least favorite more attractive or easier?” The Deceptively Easy Part When I am able to completely turn off [...]
Advice to the Future
May 4, 2012
This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “What advice do you think your younger self would give to you now? What advice would you give to your older self/future self?” Then In college, I first had the idea that I too could write a romance novel. It’s still firmly [...]
Teaching Moments
April 27, 2012
This week for our How I Write series, my accountability group asked, “What have you recently learned from a REAL LIFE event/happening that you can apply to your writing/writing career?” Have you ever felt like the universe is trying to tell you something? It’s been shouting at me lately. When the same phrases and themes [...]
