Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2019
Do you have an idea for a book? Have you started writing? Is everything flowing like an ocean current or is there a dam or roadblock? Writers get stuck. Even ones who have written for years. You’ve heard about speakers having stage fright. Well, writers get writer’s block. Sometimes it happens occasionally. You’re not quite sure how the scene …
When I first started writing, my characters “went through the motions” of the story. The heroines dressed well, wore gorgeous clothes, and attracted handsome, well-dressed heroes. The heroes undertook grueling adventures where they encountered obstacle after obstacle, and always saved the heroine in the end. All stories have to end with HEA (Happily Ever After), of course. But despite the …
What your characters do is central to the story. The plot revolves around them and their emotions, their insights, their successes and failures. So their occupations are important. But how you feel about their occupations may be even more important. When I started to write Bella Toscana, Toscana had a store where she sold Italian things, as well as her …
