Eclectic writer

 One thing when you're designing your story is to ask yourself is it a good fight? Who wants to read about the man or woman who has ever...

Strive for impact - No matter if the novel is regional or universal make the settings as real as possible. If regional authentic settings r...

When I first read abou regional novels versus universal novels I wasn't sure I understood. In Structuring Your Novel :From basic idea t...

Continuing with what I write last week. The first one today is - Promises made to the Reader - When you set out to write a book one of t...

More things that should be included in Chapter 1 - Sometimes life makes you feel chapter 1 is the longest in the books and often it is. I...

You've just about planned your story or you're going back to see if you have covered all the points. There are a few things to reme...

There are two basic kind of story lines. One is plot centered and the other is character centered' When writing a Plot centered story...

 Since the environment and the hero, heroine or multiple characters interact with this forming a basic conflict let's look at the ways t...

"Feeling is the place where every story begins."  Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain. Each time you begin a st...

Karen's Weisner's From First Draft to Finished Novel has a lot of good tips. This is the finish of her points in creating romantic ...

Here are 3 more tips taken from From First Draft to Finished Novel by Karen Wiesner. 1. Write love scenes chronologically. For me this is...

Still garnering tips from Karen Wiesner's From First Draft To Finished Novels. These particularly concern love scenes. What's you...

Last week we looked at three ways to bring sexual tension into stories. Today we'll look at at least three more. 4.Start the tension ...

Horu's Chosen (An Alternate Egypt Book 2)  is free until February 14th Still reading and gleaning things from From First Draft To F...

Setting is important to the stories. The setting can be a background against which the characters are portrayed. Setting can be the foregro...

Now that you know who your major players are and you've forbidden them to do all those things characters shouldn't do, how do you l...

While reading From First Draft To Finished Novel by Karen Wiesner a came across some things about characters that she mentioned may make th...

This step may be the hardest particularly since you have all this wonderful material gathered and you're ready to go. But if you can pu...

Now you've collected all these pieces like characters, settings and incidents, what do you do with them. Combining them and establishin...

 In From First Draft to Finished Novel, Karen Wiesner talks about after brainstorming comes Research. Her take on research is more extensive...