5 Steps to Capture and Keep the Editor’s Interest
I’m blogging over at the Palmetto Christian Writers Network today. Come join me for 5 Steps to Capture and Keep the Editor’s Interest.
Writing Skills
Writing advice and tips.
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What do football and fiction have in common?
The first thing we as writers must accomplish with our story is to hook our reader. But if we merely hook them, the reader can get away. So we must also then compel them to read on to the middle and then right through to the end of our story. We spur our reader to the…
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Who’s the big bad wolf in your story?
What was the big bad wolf’s goal in the story of the 3 little pigs? To have dinner. He needed to eat and the 3 pigs met the bill. The wolf was doing what came naturally to him. There was nothing evil about eating the pigs, but of course to the pigs, who stood to…
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6 Tasks to Accomplish with Act 1 of Your Novel – Part 4
You want to write a best seller. What writer doesn’t? First you’ve got to come up with a good story idea. Then you’ve got to get that idea from Point A to Point Z and figure out everything in between. (That’s my hardest struggle — plotting.) You’ve got to hook your reader — and keep…
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Coming soon to an e-reader near you
It’s done. I hit the send key last Friday. After two years of fighting with myself and the manuscript — and spiritual forces of darkness — the revised second edition of my book, titled Carried by Grace, is now with the publisher ready for her to work her layout magic. Help! My Husband Has Sexually…
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Where in the world is your story?
Have you ever started reading a book thinking it was contemporary fiction and then 2 … or 3 … or 4 chapters later realized it was historical? Or maybe you’ve spent the first several pages trying to figure out where the story takes place — big or small city, where you live or in a…
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Six Tasks to Accomplish in Act 1 of Your Novel – Part 2
As a writer you know you have to hook your reader. And you know you do that by writing a compelling opening line/paragraph. But where do you go from there? How do you keep that reader interested and turning the page, instead of slamming the covers shut? The secret lies with your main character.
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What Drives Us to Write?
Today I have the pleasure of interviewing longtime friend Joyce L. Villeneuve. Joyce is a senior marketing and communications consultant and successful entrepreneur in the advertising, photography, and public relations fields. I knew Joyce long before either of us became published authors. We worked together in Colorado. Joyce is now the author of two books:…