Where Normal Need Not Apply
It’s that time of year again. My nine-year blogiversary is coming up on July 12th. And I’m once again amazed by the fact that I’ve been writing this blog for nine years. How can something feel like yesterday and forever at the same time?
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We might have heard that the purpose of the plot is to reveal character. What does that mean and how can understanding it help our storytelling?
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A tweet along the lines of “I ran out of books in my to-be-read pile” shocked me. How do we find books to read and how can we can expand our choices?
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In talking about active vs. passive goals, the concept gets even more complicated if we’re writing multiple-protagonist stories like romance.
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Our characters don’t want to change, so they often start with passive internal goals. How we can make those passive goals work for us and our story?
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It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, and this time we’re talking about how to choose good story goals.
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With everything we think we “should” do, it can be hard to know what our goals really are. How can we figure out our priorities—our most important goals?
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How detailed is too detailed when it comes to planning our story? What can we can learn about leaving our options open as we draft our story?
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Finding a good work-life-writing balance is a never-ending struggle. Despite the difficulty, we need to pursue balance or suffer in multiple ways.
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Milestones like graduation force a sense of accomplishment that comes from completing something. Similarly, we can “graduate” from one stage of our writing life to the next.
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