In my continued study of conflict and suspense, I found some great information in Chapter Six of Writing for Emotional Impact by Karl Iglesias. The majority of the book is specific to screenwriting, but chapter six is stuffed full of great information about creating emotional engagement to hold a reader’s attention from beginning to end.Continue reading “Writing a Page Turner: Evoke emotion in your readers”
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The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe Episode One
Episode One She Only Hears What She Wants to Hear Moxie Sharpe felt increasingly uncomfortable as a young costumer pushed and prodded her breasts into the highest possible cleavage while tightening laces through each layer of metal holes. Pearl had messed up before, but this time was the worst. “Take a deep breath.” TheContinue reading “The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe Episode One”
Read to Write: Conflict and Suspense
Improve your writing while you read Experience Writing is all about bringing you along on the roller-coaster of my writing life. Changing my focus from my writing life to yours means I need to let you in on my plans, so you can join me, right? To do that, I typed up my plan ofContinue reading “Read to Write: Conflict and Suspense”
The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe: Conflict and Suspense in Practice
My current area of interest is conflict and suspense. How do I write scene after exciting scene to keep my readers turning pages? I realize that to become a better writer, I can’t just read about writing suspense and read suspense novels, I need to write using the techniques I learn. So, for ourContinue reading “The Misadventures of Moxie Sharpe: Conflict and Suspense in Practice”
Conflict, suspense,tension: Keep readers reading
What keeps readers’ eyes on the page? What makes a book that you can’t put down? These are the questions I’m exploring to start the year. It’s an important topic so I’ll be covering different aspects each week this month. As usual, I’m reading, watching, and listening to everything on the subject. I amContinue reading “Conflict, suspense,tension: Keep readers reading”
Experience Writing: This site is about you. Tell me what you want in the new year and a free gift!
This year is all about you! I recently took a course from Open University Australia called Write for the Web. The course opened my eyes to some fundamental truths about writing. The first truth–seems obvious, but created a shift in my outlook–I am writing for you. To write good content, I need to know whatContinue reading “Experience Writing: This site is about you. Tell me what you want in the new year and a free gift!”
Do all of your Holiday Shopping right here! Then you’ll be done!
Get All Your Christmas Shopping Done Right Here! Think of all the great people on your Christmas list. I bet, even though you want to get each person something great, you are dreading the drudgery of driving all over town from store to store only to shell out money for the latest piece of plasticContinue reading “Do all of your Holiday Shopping right here! Then you’ll be done!”
#NaNoWriMo Yes or No? The Pros and Cons of Participating in National Novel Writing Month
Have you heard of NaNoWriMo but are not sure what it is? Thought of trying it but wondered if it was worth it? I wrote the first draft of my novel this November and lived to tell. Imagine: You’ve been dreaming of writing a novel since you were a little kid, but life got inContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo Yes or No? The Pros and Cons of Participating in National Novel Writing Month”
A Quick Note of Thanks
I want to thank Renee at Mother Daughter Book Review for allowing me to guest post and for making the post look so lovely. I did research on photography as illustration in children’s picture books and found an interested study that illuminated a hybrid genre. I hope you’ll take a moment to click on theContinue reading “A Quick Note of Thanks”
My First Blog Award: Liebster! And Eleven Great Blogs You Might Not Have Checked Out Yet.
Thank you to Vaidehi Singh over at Vaidus World for nominating me for the Liebster award. I’m very glad she enjoys this blog. Here are the rules for accepting the award: Thank the blogger who nominated you with a backlink. Displaying award badge. Answering nominator’s questions. Writing 11 random facts about yourself. Nominating 11 bloggersContinue reading “My First Blog Award: Liebster! And Eleven Great Blogs You Might Not Have Checked Out Yet.”
Experience Writing 