Young Adult Author
Creating characters that your readers love can take time. Adding depth should be down in layers, putting more and more in as you work on each revision or draft. Here are four things that I think writers need to think about when adding this depth to their characters. What is your character’s motivation? Yes, I…
…and how I have used Tarot to overcome them Our inner editors can be very loud and can totally convince us that we have a range of fears from fear of success to fear of failure. But I think that if we learn to acknowledge and address these fears, we can overcome them with journaling…
Let’s say you’ve been dabbling with using Tarot cards for your writing and you’ve been pulling one card at a time – great!! Looking at one card can help you gain insight, get you out of your own head, and spark ideas but by adding a second (or even third) card, you can take your…
Do you have a writing ritual that helps you put more words on the paper? Would you like one that’s totally customized just for you? I believe that having a writing ritual can help you actually look forward to writing so you sit down day after day with a smile on your face. This…
Do you think you can quiet your inner negative voice while you write? Because I think you can. I don’t think there’s a writer around that has not had the issue of sitting down at their keyboard or notebook and hearing their inner voice saying things like: “This sounds stupid!” “Nobody is going to want…
Suffering from writer’s block can call one to feel guilty, shameful, and depressed. I have four simple things that I do before, during and after my writing sessions that help me defeat writer’s block. Have a writing ritual The beautiful thing about writing rituals is they can be pretty much anything you want! The…
Anyone can grab the baby name book off the bookshelf, or use any of the apps available, but I think there are more fun and creative ways to come up with character names. Start with the time period and country your book is set If you’re writing from a book set in the United…
Experiencing writer’s block can cause you to feel all kinds of emotions from shame to guilt to anger and back again. If you are dealing with writer’s block and you’re afraid you’ll never write again, I have six questions that can help you get unstuck and back to writing again. Note, if you’re like me…
Creating characters that make readers fall in love takes time and many, many layers of development. If you’ve taken my free training, Novel Narrator, and used Tarot to create your characters then you have an amazing character but to take that character and add some depth, we need to do a few more things. …
Why community is important, even if you are between writing projects Writing can be lonely, and most of the time that’s exactly what we like about our chosen career, the solitude of talking to our imaginary friends. But when those friends stop talking to us it’s helpful to have real life people, other writers, around…