✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Does Your Protagonist Have Flaws?
“Give your protagonist a flaw. Your readers cannot relate to a perfect, goody-two-shoes main character.” Source
Love, Laugh, and Happiness
“Give your protagonist a flaw. Your readers cannot relate to a perfect, goody-two-shoes main character.” Source
Backstory. It’s the best tool you have to develop relatable, realistic, three-dimensional characters for your novel. Sketching out a backstory is not the sexiest part of writing a novel. Investigating…
“Every good story has a plot and every good plot needs a theme.The story is a series of events. The plot is a structure that the storyteller uses to show…
“Write from the seat of your pants, especially if you’re accustomed to outlining. Writing without the safety net of an outline can unshackle your creativity.” Source
Write every day, whether you feel like it or not. Good writing isn’t an accident. It comes from the daily discipline of sitting down and writing. Yes, you’ll get sick…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~
““I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a…
“A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith…
“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” ~ Joss Whedon Source
“The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I…