Villains. You can’t have a good story without them. We loathe them. We hate them. Sometimes, we admire them. While we know the protagonist, the hero, must prevail, deep down inside, we sometimes still root for the bad guy. So how do we create a memorable villain? The first thing we have to remember, to…
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When I’m Sixty-Four
“Will you still need me, will you still feed me?” Fill in the blank… Of course: “…when I’m sixty-four.” Yeah, I played the HELL out of Sgt. Pepper when it came out. My older brother and I each had record players, but one copy of the record between us. We would sit in each other’s…
Rocky Mountain Writer #113
Jason Evans & Writing Memorable Villains On Saturday February 17, Jason Evans is leading RMFW’s free monthly workshop and if you have trouble developing and writing your bad guy, this session might be just what you need. The program is about writing memorable villains and on the podcast we’ve got Jason Evans here for a…
Finding My Audience
When my latest book come out last month, I booked a romance blog tour. My promoter did a great job and got my book featured on about 40 blogs. About halfway into the tour, as I was thanking hosts and seeing no other comments—none—I realized I was wasting my money. The blogs were all focused…
Cast Your Book
Writing can often become labor-intensive. We become so focused on rewrites and editing and tightening up the grammar and narrative and plotting and on and on and on… Sometimes it’s fun, for a break, to remind yourself why you’re writing this thing – at it’s most basic, because it’s fun to tell stories. One of…