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I Love Dialogue! Checkmate excerpt 2

Originally posted on Dellani Oakes:
Dane Berry has had a few rough days. He’s been chased by rabid body builders, accosted by a screaming fan, robbed and shot at. The one bright spot in all this is Milla, but he won’t consummate his relationship with her while all this hangs over his head. He’s already…

6 Simple Steps to Superbad Villains

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
We all love to hate bad guys, and you gave me some fantastic additions to my villain list last week, (thank you). What I love more than hating a bad guy, is a bad guy that makes me empathise with them before I hate them. It makes the hate so much…

I Love Dialogue! from Checkmate

Originally posted on Dellani Oakes:
I’m especially pleased with this book. In 2009, I finished my NaNoWriMo novel, The Ninja Tattoo, early and got an idea for another book. I started on it Thanksgiving afternoon and finished it in four days. In addition to my NaNo novel, I wrote Checkmate, another 54,066 word novel. I’m…

Crafting Villains Series #1 Who’s Your Ultimate Villain?

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
April brings the start of another series, as I start to look at the villains in my novel, I thought I would share with you the things I learn. But first: Audience Participation Required… I want to run a poll, to see who your favourite villains are? Comments below. There…

Writespiration #33

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
For those of you not in the UK, then a double yellow line is a marking on the side of roads to indicate you can’t park there. See picture below. If this inspired you, jot a few words, a poem, a haiku, or a story, and I will post it…

The Faces of Undiscovered

Originally posted on Love Under the Sun:
Like some other authors, I like to choose an actor or actress that fits the profile of my character, and use them as a sort of template in character creation. It helps me to hear a real voice in my head, see facial expressions and visualize movement as…

The Secret To The Quickest Edit You Can Do

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I have these awful words that plague me. I call them crutch words. They are those pesky words when I am in the zone writing a first draft that creep into my work…over and over and over again. They are an annoyance, an irritation, a PLAGUE on my life! They are the…

Writespiration #32

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
If this?Writespiration?inspired you then jot a few words, a poem or a story and post below and I will post them with a link to your blog in next weeks post. Here’s mine: What is Love? By Sacha Black “What does it feel like, Mama?” “What does what feel like,…

Meet Van Driscole – Undiscovered

Originally posted on Love Under the Sun:
What is your name? My name is Van Driscole. What is your story? My story is told in Undiscovered by Dellani Oakes What is your biggest fear? I’m afraid I’m going to do something stupid and let Scott down or get Cadence killed. What would you give up…

The Crafting Characters Series #4 5 Reasons You Need to Find Your Character’s Face

Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I read an article once, that said our brains are incapable of creating faces from scratch. I have no proof backing this up, but it seems a reasonable enough suggestion given the complexity of faces. For the purposes of this blog. This means that every face you see in your…

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