OctPoWriMo Fun News! The prompts are up at OctPoWriMo 2021! Today’s prompt is “Contemplation.” This prompt made me think of the work I did on “reflections” last month, and inspired me to take some mirror in mirror photos I had been too insecure to do before. The OctPoWriMo prompt for Day 3 (from 2018) isContinue reading “#OctPoWriMo & #Writober Day 3”
Category Archives: Character Development
#NaNoPrep 101 Week Two – Creating Characters
This second week of NaNo Prep 101 is titled Create Complex, Believable Characters . The exercise provided includes character questionnaires that you may find useful, but the final three questions are the most important: Want Need Internal/External obstacles Where I begin my characters Weeks ago when I began the Writer In Motion Challenge, I talkedContinue reading “#NaNoPrep 101 Week Two – Creating Characters”
Name this turtle and get your name in the next Gator McBumpypants book!
Creation makes its own calendar I thought I was way ahead of the game. I had big plans and was gonna do it right this year. I mean, I have experience. I have my online presence set up. I filled in my Google calendar. I had a marketing plan. Everything I had done would makeContinue reading “Name this turtle and get your name in the next Gator McBumpypants book!”
Tips and Tricks: Creating Revision Goals and Preparing For First Readers.
I apologize for my time away. I needed a break and an adventure to fill me up with new energy, so I could return to you with insight. I can finally see an endpoint to my revisions, at least an endpoint that will allow me to send a draft to my carefully chosen first readersContinue reading “Tips and Tricks: Creating Revision Goals and Preparing For First Readers.”
Nobody’s Perfect
Want to make me not at all interested in a character? Describe him, or her as beautiful and rich. I gave up on Mary Higgins Clark’s mysteries in middle school because I just couldn’t care about the plight of the wealthy, beautiful people any more. Isn’t it enough that they cover the screens of ourContinue reading “Nobody’s Perfect”
Reality T.V. as fuel for character development
How do I develop a villain without making him, or her, a cliché bad guy? Tips I’ve read say to try to make him less one dimensional by giving him quirks and something about him that could be loveable, if he hadn’t gone so wrong. Yes, these tips are good, but why was my villainContinue reading “Reality T.V. as fuel for character development”
Experience Writing 