Ever watch a nail-biting sports game and find yourself on the edge of your seat? What if I told you that you could create that same gripping tension in your …
Kissing Book Basics
by Angela Ruth Strong, @AngelaRStrong There’s almost nothing better than a kissing book, and according to a recent review, the kissing scene in my latest novel ranked right up there …
Lessons God Teaches Authors When Creating Characters
by Jeanne Takenaka, @JeanneTakenaka The idea of creating characters was the one thing that kept me from jumping into fiction writing for, well, decades. One of the first writing lessons I heard …
What’s The Point?
by Michelle Sass Aleckson, @MchelleAleckson As authors we talk a lot about goals. The main character needs a clear goal for a story to have any momentum. Goals can present themselves as …
The Art of Understatement
by Angela Ruth Strong, @AngelaRStrong There’s a scene in The A-Team where the guys are inside a tank that’s parachuting from an airplane, and they fire a cannon to push …