Character Development: Step One

The first step toward creating real and relatable characters for your fiction.

Myths About Writing a Novel

Getting some of the myths about novel writing out of the way. How much can you earn? Do characters really tell you what to write?

Thinking About Writing Non-Fiction

So, I’m toying with writing a nonfiction book. For the sole purpose of making money, of course. I know… right? We writers and other artists are supposed to be focused on ‘the art.’ But, that’s bullshit. Anyway, in order to write a series of books, it has to be a subject I’m at least tangentially …

4: Romance and protagonists

Now that the scifi debacle is over, I can get back to this romance thingy. This is why I didn't give myself a timeline--I have roughly ten projects going on at any given time and I find it hard to concentr SQUIRREL! Okay, where was I? Initially, I was thinking of having both characters play …

Publishing too Soon

Rookie Self-Publishing Mistake I would like for you all to meet someone. His name is Barin and he and a few other people have been living in my head for a couple of years now. It almost never takes me that long to write a book. Well, not quite true. My first one took 35 …

3: Creating Characters

What I know so far I love Scrivener... even though I am having a little trouble learning how to make Version 3 do what I loved about Version 2. (That reminds me, I need to email them. Once I hear back, I'll put up a tutorial.) But, there are a few places where I think …

Words per Day Tracker for 2018

Free, easy to use word-count tracker for 2018. Stay on track for the year.

1: Researching How to Plot Romance

What I know about romance could fit in a thimble. (And I hear the combined shouts of amen from my exes as soon as I hit 'publish') So, I'm going to run down the list of what I know has to go into this book. It's going to be tough. I'm not going to be …

Everything involved in writing a book

Like many of you this time of year, I've been binge watching Lifetime and Hallmark cheesy Christmas movies. I absolutely love them. And I want a book in that same, sweet-romance genre up for sale next year. Because that will give me a ton of time and they are relatively formulaic, that's what I'm going to write for this experiment. Outlining every detail will slow me way down, but I think it will be helpful to other people wanting to write. 

In dire need of Scrivener 3 help!!

  In all my books, I always put a line-drawing that's relevant to the story before the chapter headings. I love doing that! But with the new Scrivener, everything is different and I can't figure out how. Since Scrivener 3 is so new, I can't even find any tutorials on the internet. I thought everything …