Month: March 2013

praise

My college friend Kelly really lifted my spirits today by sending an email which included this bit: Wow – your draft 3 already looks really...

the heart of the story

Writing friend Diana Day told me that one of the important – but latent – threads in my novel was the romance thread between Mike...

Five questions for each character

Whew! I’ve been working on this for hours this morning, and finally have a first pass. A few five-question interviews from some of my characters...

character arcs

I’m starting draft 4. The goals of this draft: all major characters to have interesting character development arcs all characters to behave in ways that...

get to know your author

I recently stumbled over the Proust Questionnaire and thought it might provide an interesting way to do an author interview. Your favorite virtue – honesty....