To Prologue or Not To Prologue
Should you write a prologue for your novel? I am biased, I admit, but here\’s some information to help you decide.
The Likability Factor
Would you want to read about someone whom you didn’t particularly like? Granted, readers have different tastes but as a rule, we readers don’t want to spend our time reading about people we dislike or find annoying.
What you think you wrote is not what you wrote…
Writing is a solitary activity. It just isn’t possible to have someone else do your writing for you. Sure, you can hire a ghost writer, but then the ghost writer is the actual writer, not you. If YOU are the writer, then you must do that activity all by your lonesome. There is no other … Read more
Outlining
It’s been a rough week for me to write regularly. What started out as floor repair is now floormageddon. My house has a Gothic horror show’s worth of dust in every nook and cranny as the contractor chips up concrete and repairs the subfloor. I am looking forward to getting back to my routine…all the … Read more
More On Outlining
I’ve been continuing to work on my outline of my new book each morning for half an hour and am slowly working through each aspect of my story. I have the story idea in my head clearly, but when it gets to the nuts and bolts out outlining there is some work involved to flesh … Read more
Creating a Regular Writing Schedule and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve been on a regular blogging schedule and, quite honestly, I can’t even remember what my last topic was. Much has happened in the last few months I’ve been absent. My elderly folks got in a car accident (they are home now and doing much better) which derailed me for … Read more
Character Development Part 5
There\’s a new post on character development over at: https://wp.me/p9ta94-wy **Reminder that I will cease posting to this site soon.
Character Development Part 4
The latest post on character development is up. You can read it over at: https://susanbrookswriter.com/2018/03/21/character-development-part-4/ Be sure to sign up for notification at the new site to continue seeing these posts.
Character Development Part 3
There are four things that readers learn when they read your book. Who What Why Why not We’ve been working on the who part for a few weeks now with the goal of populating our novels with characters that feel like real people rather than cardboard throw-away cutouts. We’ve done character bios for each one, … Read more