I’ve worked helping people maneuver past obstacles for most of my adult life. I’ve heard thousands of stories from men and women whose journeys came to halt because obstacles blocked their path. Over the years I learned many things about these roadblocks that will help you as a writer to remove them from your life. Here are a few of them. Roadblocks are rarely insurmountable. It’s true. Even those precision positioning of police cruisers to stop fleeing crooks. In fact, one reasons cops don’t use roadblocks much anymore is because the bad guy can maneuver past them. The same applies to your writing journey. When a roadblock shows up in the middle of your path, remember there is a way around it, over it, or through it. Remember that […]
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Taking It One Day at a Time
Talking to the lovely and gracious Susie May the other day, we hit on the topic of survival. She’d been exhorting her college son on how to manage his time, get through the rigors of college. “Take it one day at a time,” she said. “Don’t get lost by looking too far into the future.” It hit a chord with me. I remembered reading an article about POWs during Viet Nam. The ones who were hopeful, looking forward to getting out, knowing release would come soon ended up being the ones who did NOT survive. The prisoners who lived just for today, whose only goal was to survive the day, were the ones who endured their years in prison. Some were POWs for seven years. Not a pretty or hopeful […]
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Yesterday, we reviewed the Whys of falling in love, and how we might build that into our romance. Just to add a shameless plug here – if you want to know how to build a full-fledged romance, try Kiss and Tell, my brand new workbook on writing a romance! (Check it out here: http://stores.mybooktherapy.com) So, bringing this back to the story: How do the hero and heroine complete each other? For Kenzie, it’s that she remembers who she is. For Luke, it’s the sense that he doesn’t have to be alone. I’ll be building on that in the next scene. Once I figure out the romance element I’m building, I’ll also take a look at the kind of scene I’m building. In this case, it’s a combo scene […]
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