Young Adult Author
You pride yourself on being a pantser – someone who just dives right in with their book project without an outline, writing by the seat of your pants. It’s exciting – I get it! You want to just get started, but what happens when you get to that one scene and you don’t know what…
You did what all of the writing books and experts told you to do when you started working your novel – you created a very detailed outline and you expected things to go super smooth. BUT now you’ve hit a wall and that detailed outline isn’t helping anymore. Your characters aren’t doing what you told…
We have all read books where the characters seem to leap off the page, where they feel so lifelike that you wouldn’t be surprised if they walked through your front door. As a writer, I know that you want to ensure that your characters are like that so your readers fall in love with…
Have you used any of these excuses before while writing… I’ll write later or I’ll write when the kids are older I’ll write when my house is perfectly clean I can’t concentrate until all of my projects are done I love my characters, but they’re not doing what I want…and now my draft is messy…
Has writing your novel lost its luster? You started writing with all kinds of ideas and energy and excitement, but now that you’re in the muddy middle, it all just feels a little blah, a little hard. Sitting down and forcing yourself to write feels about as much fun as riding the New York City…
Every writer that I know, myself included, always hits a wall at some point in their writing process. Usually it’s smack dab in the middle of the manuscript where you look at your book and you think, does this suck? Do I suck? Should I just scrap this whole thing? I’m going to give you…
Is there more than one unfinished novel sitting on your hard drive? Are you wondering if your current work in progress is headed in that same direction? I feel like there are three reasons why writers get stuck in the muddy middle – they think their book stinks, they can’t see a way to end…
Here are three terrible pieces of writing advice I hear most often…and how to avoid them. Write Everyday I’ve heard this for years and in all kinds of places, and for me, it did not work. It did cause me to burn out and stop writing for weeks and months at a time, because I…
I find that writers get stuck for a variety of reasons: Lack of ideas Lack of motivation Getting stuck in their own head Overthinking things Worrying Issues with their characters The perfect writing tool to help with these issues will allow you to have more creative freedom, give you a new way of looking at…
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…