Just because a door sticks a little doesn’t mean it isn’t mine to enter. Even if it’s locked, maybe I’ve had one of my blonde moments and misplaced the key. Or locked myself out by mistake. Or maybe it isn’t my door but I need to engage in a little breaking and entering to rescue somebody on the other side.
Author: rmfwBoss
Friendly Author Mutates Into Envious Villain – Film at Eleven
By Aaron Ritchey So, in a story, you have the hero with a flaw who overcomes their flaw to beat the villain and win the day. Hurray! We all love a good story arc because it gives us hope—deliriously flawed creatures that we are. Let’s flash back, oh, I don’t know, five years. I was…
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson Five
By Jeanne C. Stein Story Structure – Plotting, Inciting Incident This class we look at story structure, beginning with constructing a plot. There are as many ways to plot a story as there are writers to plot them. When I started writing the Anna Strong series, I used the “seat of the pants” method—I knew…
Facing Fear of Failure
By Jeffe Kennedy This is the cover for my next TWELVE KINGDOMS book, THE TALON OF THE HAWK. It comes out May, 2015, but the Addicted 2 Heroines blog is running a Hottest Heroines cover contest for all covers revealed in 2014. I was thrilled they chose the TALON cover for round one, and even…
Kickstart This, Reprise. Five Lessons Learned.
The fact that there are people out there who want to read The Nothing enough to put money behind the unfinished book feels incredible to me. It makes me want to be a better writer, because it feels like this book belongs to everybody who backed it and not just to me.