Hey there! It’s the first Wednesday of the month, which is when I share an excerpt of a work in progress and invite you to do the same. It’s usually stuff that’s too raw for critique, so we don’t do that in the comments, but a friendly word is always welcome. Last month I told you that I’d been in
The other week, I was thinking about how newlyweds post things on Facebook like, “OMG you guys, I’m married!” So I posted that exact thing on my Facebook wall, even though Mr. Donovan and I have been married for many years. It cracked people up. But seriously, this is a great exercise to help you appreciate the everyday things in your
Recently I did a list of writing prompts to help writers embarrass their characters in their fiction. People seemed to like it a lot, so I thought I’d do a similar one to annoy (or even seriously anger) your characters! Most of these are more along the lines of pet peeves, and some could be used for the sake of humor,
This is a post about star Symbolism and meaning, for tattoos, art, poems, or whatever you like! I’ve done a lot of research on star symbolism because of my writing. In my paranormal romance trilogy that begins with The Phoenix Codex, the members of the secret society have star tattoos. It’s actually a 12-pointed star in a double circle.
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
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