While I was in Germany last summer, my family and I traveled mostly by train. I remember looking out the window as our train pulled into Munich station. I was amazed at how the tracks all merged into this one giant station. My writing brain couldn't help but think how...
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned pulling out my plot grid when I was revising a manuscript and promised to talk more about that later. Now that NaNo is finished and many of you have a very rough draft in place, it's key to pull out or create a plot grid.Why have a...
I'm a big, big, VERY big fan of both Star Wars and Lord of the Rings (and C.S. Lewis and Stephen Lawhead too!). So when my husband sent me this link, I had a good laugh. Which inspired me to find this cool clip: Thinking about these movies, makes me wonder why I love...
Jay Asher- No Bookmarks Allowed, How to inject suspense into any novel· You must make a page turner, don’t let your reader put your book down!· He read to us the best suspense book: The Monster at the End of this Book (Hilarious!)· Key to doing this:1. Fill the book...