Does Your MC Sing? How to Fix a Boring Protagonist When I began The Comyn’s Curse (then titled Full Scottish Breakfast–what was I thinking!), I created a cast of unique characters that reviewers and critiquers on The Write Practice immediately… Continue reading

Bad Boys, Watcha Gonna Do? (Crafting Your Villain) One of the most satisfying things I’ve found about writing a novel is the scenes involving the bad guy–the nemesis of my protagonist. And it’s also the most difficult, because while I… Continue reading

Who Said That? – The Art of Dialogue In your reading, you may have endured dialogue like this: It’s a nice day today, isn’t it?” “Yes, it is a nice day. The sun is out and the sky is blue.”… Continue reading

What if My Mysterious Historical Ghost is in Love? (Finding Your Genre) I’m in love with my ghosts. I really am. I want them to be happy, and fulfilled, and with their significant other. Is that too much to ask?… Continue reading

Your Mountain is Waiting I’ve been thinking a lot about mountains. Specifically ancient mountains, like the Appalachians that run from Georgia to Nova Scotia in North America, and the Highlands in Scotland. Why, you may ask, am I thinking about… Continue reading

Tweet! The Evolution of a Twit Before this writing journey, I thought a twit was one of those Monty Python village idiots that gambol about falling all over themselves. Little did I know that, thanks to DartFrog and marketing expert… Continue reading

I’ve decided to come clean. If you haven’t figured it out by now by the frequency of my posts, I am rather lazy. Anyone who actually has the joy of knowing me already knew that, but some of you are… Continue reading