Early on we learn conflict makes a great story. Conflict elicits emotion. Tension is necessary to keep the story flowing and the readers turning pages. In romance, it’s easy to …
How to “undress” your character!
I’m on my way to Portland today – going to teach at Chip MacGregor’s Master Seminar on How to Write Best-selling Fiction. So, I’m sitting on a plane. …
Building the right backstory
We’re trying to help our readers fall in love with our characters this week at MBT….and one way you do this is through “Character Layering” – or slowly revealing the …
It’s just a little Kiss
So…you turned in your Frasier entry…feeling tense? Of course – because you’re hoping for a great outcome, but your fears of your manuscript – the frailties you recognize in your …
Jesus Turns Water into Words…
I spent Easter weekend doing research for my current WIP – a world war 2 novel about a Red Cross nurse (tentatively entitled Nightingale, due out in November) – in …