Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character's personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talent and Skill Thesaurus: Sewing
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Talents and Skills Thesaurus: Carpentry
Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character's personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talents and Skills Thesaurus: Carpentry
Talents and Skills Thesaurus: BAKING
Choosing a talent or skill that fits with your character's personality, lifestyle, and values can go a long way to helping them break free of the common stereotypes seen so often in fiction. This thesaurus will help you find the perfect quality or two that will show readers your character's … [Read more...] about Talents and Skills Thesaurus: BAKING
Tips on Raising the Stakes
Suspense & Thriller author José Bográn shares his expert advice on how we can raise the stakes. Story Stakes: How High Is High Enough? When asked what “raising the stakes” means, most writing class teachers will point out the classic example of the man atop the tree who can’t get down … [Read more...] about Tips on Raising the Stakes
Surprising Emotions: How Will Your Character React?
By David McFarland Surprising Emotions When I was thirteen, I met my grandfather for the first time, and he told me about his life in the Mafia. “I ran whorehouses and gambling joints in the Midwest, for more than thirty years,” he said, “mainly from Detroit down into … [Read more...] about Surprising Emotions: How Will Your Character React?
After The First Draft: Attitude Is Everything
By Peter Salomon Congratulations, you've finished the first draft of your novel! I'm serious, this is something that calls for a minor celebration. There are untold numbers of people who have thought "I should write a book" and never started, or started and never finished. You've finished! This … [Read more...] about After The First Draft: Attitude Is Everything
How to Build Suspense By Meeting Readers in the Middle
Thriller author Donna Galanti has 7 great tips on how to build suspense and keep the reader's attention, so read on. I’ve learned so much about suspense since writing my first book. One thing I’ve learned in fiction, and movies, is that surprise can be over-rated. Surprise is the two seconds … [Read more...] about How to Build Suspense By Meeting Readers in the Middle
Setting Thesarus Entry: Church
Sight Wooden pews, arranged into rows, a shelf on the back of each pew holding a bible and song book, an altar, pulpit, crucifixes, crosses, rosaries, decorative banners with key scenes depicted from the bible or symbols of a specific religion, flowers, clean, polished surfaces, high windows, … [Read more...] about Setting Thesarus Entry: Church
Showing vs Telling, Part Two
I've emerged from Motherhood Exile and have decided to just pick up where I left off. My last post dealt with showing vs. telling. It defined each technique and explained why telling is usually not the best way to go and why showing is to be preferred. Now we're going to move on to the application … [Read more...] about Showing vs Telling, Part Two