Now that your character has a name, it’s time to breath some life into them. You want them to be real to readers. You want them to be memorable. But right now, you just want them to be. It can … Continue reading Make Your Characters Come Alive (Part 1)
One of the most important parts of your novel is your characters. They are the part readers relate to. They are the ones that make things happen. Without them, there wouldn’t be a story. Because characters are so important, I’m … Continue reading Naming Your Characters
What does love taste like? What does it smell like? Love doesn’t have a taste or smell, you might say. But if you look a bit closer, you’ll realize it does. It smells like your boyfriend’s cologne. It tastes like … Continue reading Describing Love with all Five Senses
You say you’re a writer, but you have nothing to write. Maybe you’ve never written a story before, and you want nothing more than to feel the magic everyone talks about when creating characters and worlds. The problem is, you … Continue reading Coming up with Story Ideas
Why would we care about taking something that is generally thought of as ugly and describing it in a beautiful way? This is what I asked myself when I finished doing this writing exercise from Rebecca Mcclanahan’s book Word Painting. Sure, it’s … Continue reading Writing Exercise: Take Something Ugly and Make it Beautiful
Hey Epic Dreamers! I’m finally uploading part two of Writing a Short Story. Sorry for the delay. I know it’s been over a week since the last video. I got a bit sick, and if you’re from the south (USA) … Continue reading Writing a Short Story (Example 2)
Hey Epic Dreamers! I thought I’d do something a little different today and share a writing exercise that I did. Since I’m finished with The Hashna Stone (for now anyway), I’m using the extra time to read some books on … Continue reading Writing Exercise: Word Painting
Writing a novel is daunting. Train yourself to finish what you started with short stories. For a good year, all my stories were 5,000 words or less. If any of you have been following my blog for a few years, … Continue reading How to Write a Short Story
Since I’m currently in the process of submitting my novel to agents, it’s a perfect time for me to impart the wisdom I’m gathering about doing such. In other words, my brain is too overloaded with the querying process to think … Continue reading Query Letter: How in the World do I Write one of Those? (Part 2)
Time for another YouTube video! My last post was on query letters, but I haven’t forgotten all you new writers out there. If query letters and sending your story to agents is the last thing on your mind–because, well, you … Continue reading Four Ways to Start Writing (For New Writers)
Most of you know that I spent last year working on my first ever book, The Hashna Stone. Now that I’ve drafted it several times, I’m ready to send it off to the agents (yikes!). Since I don’t want to … Continue reading Query Letter: How in the World do I Write one of Those? (Part 1)
Hey Epic Dreamers! I’m sure the first thing you noticed was big rectangular box with my face in it at the bottom of the post. Two far down for you to see? Well, I’ll give you a moment to notice … Continue reading Blogger or YouTuber?
