When I started out writing, I had no idea what POVs were out there (or even what POV meant—point of view). By instinct (and by habit, from reading other books) I chose 1st Person for my first trilogy (closest to journaling), then 3rd Person Limited for Rosehead, and so on.
Once you pick your story's POV, you’re stuck with it, so study it to decide which one fits your story best before you start writing.
Read MoreThere is an infinite number of ways you can write your story.
It can be paralyzing.
And yet its the freedom of writing.
The decisions you make often reflect the decisions you make in life. That’s why writing is so powerful—it lets you see yourself in the mirror, AS YOU ARE.
Read MoreSome things that happen in life are so horrific, we don’t know how to talk about them (still learning how to talk about trauma as a society), we turn them into fiction.
But even in fiction sometimes it’s too horrific most most readers, and they turn away.
How to tell your tale while staring true to its horror and yet get the readers excited about it?
Shroud horror in comedy. Hide it under humor. Present it as something funny when it’s not funny at all.
Read MoreHere is the deal. If you have no hero and no villain with conflict between them, you have no story.
Your hero and your villain must be actual people. They can’t be ideas or concepts or systems or moods.
Read MoreWe’re so eager to jump to conclusions when we can’t focus on the task at hand, especially if it’s writing. Somehow we must be doing something wrong.
We’re conditioned by our action-driven society to jump to some kind of an action.
We’ve got to do something about it. We’ve got to figure it out! Now! Right this very moment!!!
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