So I have the basic layout of my story. … The problem is my characters won’t let me stick to my admittedly sketchy outline and keep taking me off on tangents. So my question is, do you ever let your characters run roughshod over your supposed plot and see where it leads you? Or do
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Writing Questions: Characters, Part 1
Most of us as would-be writers want to get out books into someone’s hands, but don’t always understand how to make the characters in our heads as likeable or engaging to someone who only has the black-magic-marks-on-white-paper to go by. Kate Daniels, for example, was raised to be an unfeeling killer and is often kind
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Writing Questions: NaNoWriMo Edition
Disclaimer: this is an article on the craft and business of writing. We are going to answer the questions raised within with honestly and bluntness. If you are here as a fan of our work, sometimes that can be jarring, so proceed at your own risk. In a recent blog post you asked for questions
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What Does It Take To Make It?
P. writes, I desperately want to be a writer. … I attended a book signing and I could picture myself doing it, like it could be me. I could do this. … What does it take to make it? Oy. It would be good if life had easy answers. If you could just say, “Work
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Writing: POV
D. writes, I had a question about POVs. For your newest book you switched back and forth between Hugh and Elara, but you have general only stuck with one point of view for the Kate Daniels, Innkeeper and Hidden Legacy books/series. I was wondering the reasoning behind your choices to either switch between POVs or
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On Outlining
C. writes I was wondering if for a future blog post on writing or writing tricks, if you could describe your story outlining process a little? And/or post a small example of your typical outline? Even just a short blurb would be really awesome. I’m a very visual person, and I struggle with ADHD (diagnosed
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Better Books
K. writes: “Why do your books get better later in the series?” Just so you know, with the pre-release nerve-wrecking crunch, I read that as “Your first books in the series are not good enough.” 🙂 If you can’t laugh at yourself and all that. It’s not that the books get better. It just feels
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