Showing Emotion

Sep 22, 2024 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

Continuing on with the Emotion Theme: We’ve all been there: reading a book, looking forward to the exciting bit where the hero(ine) really gets to show their chops. We know it’s coming, and we’ve been looking forward to it since we figured out that they’ve got to...

Bringing Emotion

Sep 15, 2024 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

When I first started writing, I was told that if my character cried on the page, my reader wouldn’t. If I wanted to bring tears to my reader’s eyes, my character’s eyes needed to be dry while they were completely torn up inside. As with every “Rule” of writing, you...

Writing Series

Aug 18, 2024 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

There’s nothing nicer than finishing a great book and then realizing that it’s part of a series. You know that you’ve got so many more books to read—yay! But what is it that’s holding that series together? There are different types of series: those where there’s one...

Placing Your Reader Into Your Story

Aug 11, 2024 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

One of the best things about reading a novel—at least in my opinion—is escaping from my world, my life. When I read I want to stop being me sitting in my home and become someone else somewhere else doing exciting things, having fascinating experiences, falling in...

Five Tips to Adding Depth with Setting

Aug 4, 2024 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the...

Writing for the joy of it

Jun 23, 2024 | Blog, Life, Writing, Writing Craft

Have you ever looked at something either in your own life or that of someone else and said, “that would make a great story”? Do you play (or have you ever played) Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, or any other role-playing game? If the answer to either of these...