My Best Friend’s Wedding Neglecting to create dynamic secondary characters. Definition: Secondary characters are the protagonist, and the author’s best friend. A great story telling tool. They widen the stage, …
How to Craft the Motivation for a Noble Quest
How do you build a powerful Noble Quest for your character, launching him off into his Second Act Journey with enough motivation, yet enough reward waiting at the end? This …
How do you build strong motivation for your character? Chapter 3: The Start of the Noble Quest
How do you structure your novel? How many words in a scene, or pages in a chapter? I get that question a lot, because the truth is there is no …
Ten Common Author Mistakes #7
Zap-Pow! Then What Happened? Tension is king. Never miss an opportunity for a good argument! Definition: Most of us hate conflict and confrontation. Even in our books. But tension is …
Ten Common Author Mistakes #6
Cry Me A River Telling emotion rather than showing. Definition: Showing verses telling applies primarily to emotion. It’s the authors job to show the reader what the characters are doing …