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Sometimes your brain can leap ahead in your story and it can be hard to type as fast as you are thinking. I used a voice recorder when I had thoughts that I could not get down on paper fast enough or I was somewhere where I couldn’t write. A voice recorder will help keep […]

It is amazing how much you can miss when you are writing. You become comfortable with your story and characters and you become blind to things you are doing wrong. That is why it is important to take a break from writing, then go back and reread your work. Also reading your work out loud […]

Life can throw you a curve ball. If you do not have a deadline on your novel, relax. Don’t rush to publishing. Take your time. If you are having trouble going forward, set your book aside for a week to three months. When you pick it back up, reread you story from the beginning. I […]

Think about your characters and how you want their personalities to be. As you write with that in mind; supernaturally, your characters will have individual voices that other people can see when they read your words. Is your character a happy or light-hearted person? Do not write about them when you are sad or depressed. […]

You need to engage your emotions when you write. Your emotions will become a part of the pages of your book. If I wrote something that made me cry and had my editor read it and they cried, I knew I had “nailed” it. Emotions do translate onto your pages so use them.

If you are a writer a healthy fantasy life is very helpful. See your world, don’t just talk about it. Going from fantasy to paper is a process and takes practice. I struggled with this for a long time. I had a healthy fantasy life and envisioned my worlds in great detail in my head, […]

Being able to visualize your characters and their story really helps with writing the story and infusing it with personality. Spend time daydreaming about your story and write what you see. My first draft was all visual with almost no dialog. I filled in the dialog after the bulk of the story was fleshed out.

An example of a strong character with a moral code would be John Hindmarsh’s hero, Jack Foster, from the “Jack Foster Space Opera Series”. In the first chapter Jack is accosted by a smuggler who tries to get him to carry some contraband for him. Jack has tiny security cameras on his person, which he […]

I like smart characters in the novels I read and write. Characters who use their reasoning skills to think things through and come up with a workable plan. Characters who just flit around, stumbling onto the right thing to do without any thought behind it; relying on plain luck to succeed, do not keep my […]