[A note from SusieMay: So, like you all, I’m working hard on my NaNoWriMo project! To keep me motivated, I pulled out a conversation I had with an aspiring author …
Jumpstarting your NaNoWriMo Story!
It’s Day 2 of NaNoWriMo! How is it going? Your brain hasn’t shut down yet, right? I liken NaNoWriMo to running the 400 in track. The first 100 meters you take …
Writer’s Crash: How to Recover When You Hit the Wall During Rewrites
I pushed SEND on the rewrites for my fifth novel, Almost Like Being in Love, five days ago. During the month that I tore my manuscript apart, I came close …
3 Tips to Help You Describe Your Character’s Eye or Hair Color
Being writers makes us describers. We introduce a main character, knowing we are required to describe how our hero or heroine or villain looks, sounds, yes, even how they smell. …
3 Tips for Plotting with a Pantser
I was in Bermuda last week on vacation with my husband Rob, visiting with our friends Cathy and Stephen West. Yes, that Cathy West — author of Yesterday’s Tomorrow and …