To Market, To Market
Defining your story’s genre should be simple. But it isn’t, at least for me. My first novel “Unearthing Christmas” was classified as Young Adult, mainly because the dueling protagonists were […]
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Character Dimension
Your story’s characters are real. Yes, they are real to the reader who adds dimension, likes, dislikes and their own experiences to them. If they are finely and exquisitely drawn
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Mapping a Story
Every story is its own treasure hunt. We start at the map’s entrance and wind our way to the spot marked X, or, in this case, the final words. The
Heroes and Villains
I don’t think I ever set out to create a villain. They just happen in the context of a story. How can we define the hero without the antithesis of
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Character References
Writers do it. We have our favorite characters that soften our hearts to their stories. We don’t start out with preferences, but it happens. The journey to discover a character’s
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The Meaning of Words
I’ve always been interested in etymology: the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. When writing any period piece, whether a 14th
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