The last few weeks we talked about the key to creating a suspense is the Big Event that awaits the characters – either a positive or negative event that looms …
The Big Event…make it immediate!
We need another bathroom in our home. Not that we don’t already have three, but we have an unfinished room in the basement, plumbed out for a bathroom. More importantly, …
The Big Event (the key to writing a suspense pt 1)
I only had one job: get literary agent Sandra Bishop to the airport. We had spent the weekend teaching together at a private writing seminar in the middle of Minnesota, …
Does your protagonist have a Super Power? You bet!
During the My Book Therapy Deep Thinkers Retreat I threw Beth Vogt a curve. “What’s your heroine’s super power?” She looked at me like I was crazy. But I had …
How to cause a little trouble: the how-to’s of peripheral plotting
How do you find those Peripheral Plotting elements? Yesterday we talked about Peripheral Plotting – a great little trick to widening your suspense plot. How, however, do you find those …