Tag Archive | Writing Process

Hats Off to You — from Atonement TN

Originally posted on Teagan's Books:
Saturday, June 30, 2018 Lilith ponders her reflection, unconcerned about what to wear Welcome everyone.  While I’m finishing edits to Atonement in Bloom, I chose to make things easy on myself and recycle a “writing process” post.  Hats Off to You — What to Wear in Atonement, TN But first, a plea……

Finding Your Voice #Writertips #amwriting

Finding Your Voice #Writertips #amwriting

Originally posted on Jacquie Biggar-USA Today Best-selling author :
? When I first began my writing career I took a LOT of online classes on craft, editing, revision, grammar, technique, and the one thing that kept coming up was the need to discover your voice. The unique something that distinguishes your work and keeps your readers coming…

Are You Long-Winded?

Originally posted on IRISH FIREBRANDS: A Novel ~ and Other Works by Christine Plouvier, Indie Author:
If your long or descriptive sentences are anything like Stevenson’s, I’ll gladly read every last word of ’em! SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island,…

Help, my secondary character is taking over the book! #amwriting #Romance #mgtab

Help, my secondary character is taking over the book! #amwriting #Romance #mgtab

Originally posted on Jacquie Biggar-USA Today Best-selling author :
? Have you ever started to write a book and had a secondary character try to take over the story? It doesn’t matter how hard you work at putting them on the sidelines, they keep popping up at the most inopportune times. I’ve found it’s better to go…

Are There Birds in Your Book?

Originally posted on IRISH FIREBRANDS: A Novel ~ and Other Works by Christine Plouvier, Indie Author:
One of the many varieties of plover. Perhaps there’s a setting or a scene that you want to help your reader to hear: instead of just listing the names of birds that may be present, why not describe and/or phoneticize the…

Refining Dialogue

Originally posted on Musings of a Mystery Novelist:
In the midst of plotting, pondering, and (alternate?) world building, actual!writing, albeit within the confines of the mind, marches forth on this March Fourth. Pun quite intended. Amid the scene setting and character building is crafting the dialogue between the characters (spoken or implied) from which the…

Guest post: lesson 1 by David Kummer

Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
Welcome to this lesson of David Kummer’s writing course. That’s me, by the way. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, success stories, or just something fun to say, email me at davidkummer7@gmail.com. I’d love to talk about anything and everything, especially if that everything has to do with…

Mystery Mondays: Lily Black on Riding the Authorial Rollercoaster

Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
Welcome to Mystery Mondays. Today we’ll go on an emotional ride with author Lily Black. Let’s give her a gift by sharing this post and helping her spread the word about her debut novel Storm Of Attraction! Riding the Authorial Rollercoaster (without losing your breakfast) in three easy steps by…

World Building Options

Originally posted on Musings of a Mystery Novelist:
While last week’s entry focused on the quasi-meta update of the Land of Exposition, (which has developed into an inadvertent and mostly improvised meta series separate from the main works in progress) the updates on the state of the primary work in progress (namely the MASC Chronicles)…

Historical Division: RAGING FALCON: Intrigue, terrorism, taboo romance, and CIA! by Stephen Perkins

Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
Research for a fictional novel can be daunting. However, before I started writing my debut novel Raging Falcon, I was already intimately familiar with the subject matter. But, in the spirit of originality, I endeavored to create a twist on the traditional fictional tropes one encounters in Ian Fleming’s…

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