Sometimes, it’s not writers block and it’s not lack of time, it’s fatigue that stops people from writing. Nathan Bransford is an agent turned kidlit author who recently posted a […]

Remember that NaNoWriMo novel I mentioned yesterday? I think my participation is becoming more compulsory because I officially have 10,094 words. Right now, looking at that total (the sum of […]

I just realized that I may inadvertently be participating in National Novel Writing Month… How does something like participation in a huge, nationally recognized, and somewhat frantic race to the […]

I am just over 56,000 words through my novel My Own Prince Charming, but unlike the last time I hit this mark in a project, I’m not fighting my way […]

Wandering the internet this morning, I found a list of fifty “topics.” I put that word in quotes because even though they call them topics, they read more like first […]

Inspiration images: A bridge, a cell phone, and a magnet.  Goal: 1000+ words As soon as I stepped foot on the bridge, I felt the pull. I’d felt it before, […]

Writers are, of course, always involved in movies. That does not mean that they are always IN movies. Over the years they have found their way onto the big screen […]

Three words perfectly describe the essence of this perspective: You. Are. God. As such, you know everything about everyone. To be specific, third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which […]

Third Person Limited Omniscient (TPLO): a narrative mode in which the reader experiences the story through the senses and thoughts of just one character. Even without doing the research to […]

It’s hard to know how often this perspective is really used because it’s somewhat overlooked. I have had the five perspective classifications in my head for so long that I […]

Wikipedia says: The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of […]

Although I have no statistics to back up my claim, I would rate first person as one of the two most popular narrative styles. Especially in contemporary fiction. Why is […]

Sometimes, especially while researching details for a book, I start to wonder what people would think of me if all they had was my search history and bookmarks from Firefox. […]

Each story has a voice, a style of telling all its own that brings out the emotional and physical struggle the characters face. Sometimes, however, finding that voice isn’t easy. […]

I found a notebook recently while going through my desk. In it are blogs I had written and planned on posting but never did… probably because I’d misplaced the notebook. […]