by Autumn | Sep 10, 2018 | Tips, Writing
Dialogue is so important to a story. It breaks up pages of prose. It reveals a character’s personality like no other method except for internal thoughts. But so many authors get it wrong. And that is understandable because there is a lot going on with dialogue. In...
by Autumn | Sep 9, 2016 | Tips, Writing
Is it a myth that author blogs attract readers? No. But without direction, and a bit of persistence, finding those readers can feel like a slog through a desert of quicksand. Why bother? Because a blog is free marketing, well cheap marketing (one of the cheapest!) if...
by Autumn | May 13, 2016 | Tips, Writing
Floundering. I won’t say writer’s block, but I will admit that when I started my current WIP the flow came in drips and drabs. I dreaded starting a new chapter because I just didn’t have a good sense of what was going to happen. Or what should...
by Autumn | Apr 29, 2016 | Tips, Writing
What makes a good novel beginning? How do you capture a reader’s (or agent’s) attention? How much detail should you have before it becomes too much? Working on slides for my writing course got me really thinking about the beginning of novels. Everyone says...
by Autumn | Mar 11, 2016 | Tips, Writing
You’ve done it before. I’ve done it before. You are editing and you hit the fifteenth time you’ve described the forest as dark. So you pull out the thesaurus and go with “gloomy,” or “shadowed.” Then move on. Really? Is that the best you’ve got? Writers get into word...
