Hi, friends! Here’s a post about how to “show, don’t tell” in writing, and in romance novels or other fiction that contains romance in particular. In my book Master Lists for Writers , I have a list of 50 ways to show attraction between characters, but this goes into a few in more detail. I didn’t post last week because
Author: Bryn Donovan
Recently I shared advice for designing covers for books (and not just paranormal romances.) But if you get my newsletter, you’ve helped me make design decisions for my upcoming book cover. You steered me right! I went with one of the roughs you saw the other week, with tweaks in the title treatment, color, and cropping. I think this final
This post about fantasy writing prompts is basically a fantasy plot generator in list form! Most of these are epic fantasy writing prompts, but depending on how you handle them, some of them could be used for paranormal romance, urban fantasy, or dark fantasy story ideas as well. I imagined them as long story ideas, but you might find inspiration
Writing can sometimes be too much of a solitary venture, and that’s why I started WIP Wednesday. On the first Wednesday of every month, I post a little bit of something I’ve been working on, and I invite you to do the same. We don’t critique each other’s work, because we’re usually sharing stuff that’s not ready for a beta reader yet.
The end of February almost snuck up on me. Here’s what I read and enjoyed this month! Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance. I was already a little obsessed with Teslas, and let me tell you, this book made it worse. Musk, whose ambitions include warming up and colonizing Mars, is
I love doing random acts of kindness for strangers, and one of my favorites is to buy strangers gifts off of their Amazon wish lists. Now, some of my favorite random acts of kindness ideas are free—I have a list of them here. Still, this is a good one. Who doesn’t like a surprise gift, especially if it’s something they already
I love coming up with fiction writing prompts or exercises, and I think this list is particularly good for character development. You learn a lot about someone from how they behave in their most embarrassing moments, and this is a great way to create a sympathetic character. I’m writing these as “you” statements because it’s less clunky that way. And you can use