By Liesa Malik How many books have you read recently on building characters? Not building character—as in developing your own moral compass—but building characters that you can write about in your next novel? A quick search on Amazon recently pulled up over 100,000 titles when I searched for “books, characters in fiction.” Whew! As commercial…
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New Book? Don’t Poop on The Party!
By Aaron Ritchey So I have a friend who didn’t do an initial book signing for his first book. He didn’t do any sort of book launch party, nothing like that. He just threw his book up on Amazon, did some online stuff, but didn’t really celebrate the fact that he had done something that…
Emotional Barrier in Fiction: After You Cross It, What’s Next? (Part Two)
This was originally posted on September 27, 2013 by writersinthestorm Today Tiffany Lawson Inman is continuing the discussion of the emotional barrier in fiction. If you missed Part One from last month, click here. by Tiffany Lawson Inman Hello again! We learned in Part One of this post, that the emotional barrier is VERY IMPORTANT,…
All Those Potential Stories
One of the most frequent questions writers hear is “where do you get your story ideas?” Well, to be honest, where don’t we? A couple nights ago, we were clicking through channels and landed on a PBS program about nineteenth century unsolved crimes. The episode was about a string of murders in Austin, Texas in…