Paranormal Mystery, Suspense
It’s been over a month since my last post. I took a necessary break from blogging to work on my current novel. Work-life balance has been a struggle as I’m certain many of you battle, especially for writers with a full-time job. I’ve had to relinquish minor facets of daily life and concentrate just on… Continue reading WIP Update
Yoohoo! Is everyone still there? I'm coming up for air for just a moment to say "Hello" to my lovely WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter Community. I hope everyone is enjoying October! For the last few weeks, my mind plunged into writing my current WIP and has remained immersed. Little by little, I'm making steady… Continue reading An Autumn Pause
Today’s guest post is excerpted from How to Write a Page Turner (Writer’s Digest Books) by Jordan Rosenfeld (@JordanRosenfeld). If we wrote novels that were hyper-accurate to the “real lives” of our characters—even those that populate fantasy and science fiction novels—they would be thousands of pages long and span a series too big to fit… via… Continue reading 8 Mundane Elements You Should Cut From Your Story — Jane Friedman
What have I been up to? Well, I've been working on another novel. My work in progress is a Paranormal Historical Fiction set in my favorite part of the country, Geneva New York. I'd spent my college years in this region which brims with history and natural beauty. Geneva sits at the northern tip of… Continue reading Where Past and Present Meets
In the midst of preparing my third novel’s synopsis, logline, and tagline, I researched other author’s book covers and came across numerous taglines that inspired a satisfactory completion of my own. With all the subplots, twists, and characters it took many drafts before I successfully summarized an 80,000-word novel into one sentence, and it… Continue reading Never Elaborate But Sometimes Vague: Logline and Tagline
Recently, I stumbled across the term Impostor Syndrome, or Fraud Syndrome, and was surprised by the number of successful writers who experience this phenomenon. Clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes identified impostor syndrome in 1978, as feelings of fraud and self-doubt suffered mainly by high-achieving individuals. Despite their success, the person believes they don’t… Continue reading A Perfectionistic Mindset
Have you ever seen an actor or a dancer get up on stage and perform without hours and hours of rehearsals? Has a painter ever created a masterpiece without mastering technical skills? Like any artist, a writer needs to practice, practice, and practice. I don’t believe in coincidence when it comes to writing success. Like… Continue reading Coincidence or Mastery?
E. Denise Billups, Author 