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
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 friends! If you’ve ever worried, like I do, about being a time waster, or if you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I do not have time for this,” you may be interested in this Life Experiment. Very simply, in the month of June 2022, I tracked how I spent virtually every minute of every day. Many people, though certainly not
Hey, friends! We all have times when we’re feeling stuck in life, so let’s talk about how to get out of a rut and start living again. You might be thinking that’s impossible. “But Bryn, I’m stuck in a place I hate,” you might say. It may not be feasible to move to a different city, change who you’re living
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