Get to Know Your Characters (Second Date+)

Read Time: 2 minutes We're still talking about character development 🙂 . Last time I wrote that it is beneficial to "ask" your characters typical questions that you might ask on a first date. Things like favorite hobbies or where their name comes from. Obviously, there are deeper questions to be asked in any relationship …

Go on a First Date with Your Characters

I heard recently that as you outline and write your novel you get to know your characters so much that you know, for certain, how they would react in any given circumstance. And that's when I realized that I didn't know my characters well enough! And so I decided to take each of them on …

Launch of My Reading List

Hello everyone! Here is just a short little post to announce that I've added a new page this week titled "Reading List." On it you'll find books that I'm currently reading, books that I have on my radar, and books that I've already finished this year. I'll be updating it frequently so keep checking back! …

Writing Powerful Villains

I am making my way through Robert McKee's Story (subtitled Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting) for the second time (it's just so good!) and I wanted to touch on McKee's principle of "the negation of the negation" and how it used to create the most powerful villains. First, when I say "powerful villain" I don't …

First Five Chapter Titles

This week has been very productive. I'm still making my way through the first four chapters and am now rough drafting chapter 5. As such, I thought I'd take a minute and share the rough titles of the chapters so far, to give a little bit of a tease of what happens 😉 Of course, …

Rough Draft is Underway!

Hello everyone. Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. Just been getting back into the swing of things after the holidays, and sadly the blog is what fell to the last of the priority list. But now I'm back at it! Even though I haven't shared anything, the last month or so has actually …