Sarah Sundin, @sarahsundin One of the benefits of driving the carpool was eavesdropping on my kids. Here is a conversation I overheard between my daughter and her best friend when they …
The Ministry of Fiction
Sarah Sundin, @sarahsundin “Chilling out in my hospital bed with a Sarah Sundin book,” one of my best friends from high school wrote on Facebook this week. The night before her …
The Game of the Name
Sarah Sundin, @sarahsundin “My name isn’t Kurt. It’s Peter,” the hero in my work-in-progress told me yesterday. I told him he couldn’t be Peter because I had a hero named Pete …
Keeping Secrets: The Power of Secrets in Your Characters’ Lives
Sarah Sundin, @sarahsundin “Want to hear a secret?” Those words make ears perk up from elementary school playgrounds to high school cafeterias to corporate offices. Secrets fascinate us. Secrets can be …
Don’t Pull out Your Hair! How to Organize Your Research
Sarah Sundin, @sarahsundin “Where did I read that? Where did I file that?” At some point, all writers have said this about our research materials. We think we’ll always remember where …