This past week, I became obsessed with researching creepy names, and you can use this for inspiration when naming characters. These aren’t necessarily ugly names. In fact, many of them sound lovely. They’re just names with meanings that are scary, sad, or unflattering. Some might be good mean girl names, baby devil names, or just names for a story
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50 Kinds of Witch Spells I started researching witch spells because my heroine in Her Time Traveling Duke is a self-taught witch who’s still experimenting. When she tries a love spell to bring her an “old-fashioned gentleman,” she does not expect a Regency-era duke to materialize in her apartment. And he is really not happy about it. This list of
Hey, writer friends! It’s Work in Progress Wednesday, and as a lot of you know, that’s when I post an excerpt of a work in progress and invite you to do the same in the comments section. And for the regulars, I have an announcement: I’d pulled back to doing WIP Wednesday every other month due to the demands of
Many people have asked me how to write two characters talking at once, so I thought I’d do a post about it! This is an easy thing to pull off in a TV show or a movie, but slightly trickier in a novel or a short story. Be sure to bookmark the post or pin it on Pinterest if you
If you’re like me, you put a lot of thought into naming characters, which is why I make these lists of names! If you have millennial characters in a U.S. based novel, story, or screenplay, you might want to give them names that were popular when they were born. Some people in older generations can occasionally forget that millennials have
I wrote this list of romantic scene ideas because as a romance novel editor, I often ask an author to put in another romantic scene—one in which the reader can tell the main characters are really falling in love (or already there!) I also decided to write it because lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about iconic romance scenes in
Hi, everyone! I hope your summer is treating you right so far! And if it isn’t, let’s distract ourselves with creating…that’s one of the best coping skills I know. It’s Work in Progress Wednesday, when we all share excerpts of what we’re writing! I went over the guidelines yesterday, so I won’t belabor them again. I’ll just tell you that