Hey, amazing writers! Over the past several years, I’ve written three books for writers—5,000 Writing Prompts, Master Lists for Writers, and Blank Page to Final Draft. Now, just in time for National Novel Writing Month, I’ve put them out as an Essential Books on Writing ebook boxed set for only $9.99! (This is 1,129 total print pages, by the way…so
Hi, amazing writers! Since some of you may be asking, “What is a character arc?”, let’s kick this post off with a Character Arc Definition: A character arc is the way a character learns, grows, or changes over the course of the story. Makes sense, right? When you’re creating character arcs, you’re recognizing that the character at the end of
Hey, amazing writer! This is another post in honor of Halloween. 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
Hi friends! I have a few Halloween-ish writing posts lined up for you, and this is the first one! I gathered up this list of magic spells because if you’re writing fantasy or paranormal stories, you might want to work some wizard or witch magic (or “magick”) into the story, whether they are fun, cute spells or deadly serious. You
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
If you’re writing a conversation between two or more characters, you may run into the issue of characters talking at the same time. 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, so I thought I’d address it! (By the way, I’m going to
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