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…
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How To Add Depth To Your Characters
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. …
There Is Power In Numbers
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…
Lessons I Learned Publishing My First Novel
I thought I knew so much when I pushed publish on my first novel, but whoo boy was I wrong! Here are five lessons that I learned during the self-publishing process that I went through with my very first novel. Negative reviews will hurt My advice – find someone you trust to read the…