Sometimes, when authors sit down entrenched in their novels we need moments that make us smile. Writing a novel is serious business. Making our audience laugh on the pages is more difficult to do than stand-up comedy because our audience starts our invisible. We don’t even see the outline of their shape when we startContinue reading “Fat Purple Fig Day”
Tag Archives: Creative Writing
February Walk Down Main Street
The weather in Minnesota is finally above 0 but I’m still a freeze baby living up North. Taking my own advice, I need to return to my working on my novel instead of things like – blogging or tic toking about a writer’s life. Refocusing, I thought I would try another exercise today. I’m goingContinue reading “February Walk Down Main Street”
February Role Play
This weekend I devoted my time to creative projects and following-up on other like-minded individual online. I thought about going into detail and depth when it comes to telling stories. My note pages and thoughts focused on talking, thinking, seeing, and feeling like one of my characters. If you feel like something is missing, orContinue reading “February Role Play”
Characters Are Like Chocolate
Our sugar addiction lies inside heart shaped boxes and if you’re a Minnesotan, you still leave 1 or 2 pieces to be polite even when no one else is going to look inside. We never take the last piece of cake or food in the frozen tundra. It’s like we’re worried our neighbors or momContinue reading “Characters Are Like Chocolate”
Relationship Building
Valentine’s Day was spent inside and cozied up over this weekend in Minnesota. Our temperatures dipped well below zero and everyone had more than one reason to stay cuddled closed and under the covers. My excitement was changing the headlights on my car with freezing fingers and running into the grocery store while my breathContinue reading “Relationship Building”
Fantasy Week: Writing the First Chapter
Fantasy week is coming to and end but you’re writing needs to continue. I’ve shared several pieces, tips, and resources throughout the week. Now, it’s time to get to the serious business of writing our novels. Let’s get working on our first chapter and get over our fear of fixing it later. You know it’sContinue reading “Fantasy Week: Writing the First Chapter”
Fantasy Writing & World Building
This week is about helping writers form the basic building blocks of their fantasy stories. At the beginning of the week, we went over romance in fantasy writing and we’ve covered letting your characters speak to convey the stories emotion and mood. The rest of the week is going to cover building the rest ofContinue reading “Fantasy Writing & World Building”
Wednesday Show, Don’t Tell
Show not tell As we sit down at our computers to write our fantasy novels this week, I thought I would revisit an important topic. One of the biggest struggles of a writing sounds simple but is hard to put down on the page. How many times have you been told to show, not tell? Continue reading “Wednesday Show, Don’t Tell”
February Fantasy Week
The approach of Valentine’s Day can be a source of inspiration for writers this week. This week we’re going to turn to other authors of romance. Today, we’re starting out with an interview with Jenna Moreci, author of Savior’s Sister. Jenna is an author of fantasy novels and the link to her interview can beContinue reading “February Fantasy Week”
Friday Virtual Tours
Friday is here and it’s time for a virtual tour. I, like many other writers, like to travel to different destinations for our stories. This past year, we’ve had to do things a little differently. Never knowing when the next snow storm will fall in Minnesota, I decided to satisfy my travel bug with virtualContinue reading “Friday Virtual Tours”
Writing Resources
Writing Resources May the 4th be with you! Today, I just wanted to share another resource for writers. A long time ago there was once a small book that arrived in the mail with short stories and pages of resources for writers. It was the kind of catalog style book that you took too longContinue reading “Writing Resources”
Writing Female Characters
Creating Female CharactersI’m working on the details of my character before I get too deep into my chapters and I started to think about the history of female characters. I have to admit, I’ve struggled with this one. I don’t want to make my female characters damsels in distress but I don’t want to makeContinue reading “Writing Female Characters”
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