It’s time to put a little Thriller into My Book Therapy. No, we’re not going to dance (yet!) but it’s time we catered to the NON-romance author/readers of this blog. Yes, we know you’re out there, and you’ve been ever so patient last year as we talked about Romance. Hopefully, however, you learned a few applicable romantic secrets anyway. This year, oh suspense writers, is for you. This year, on MBT we’re going to spend a year On the Edge, examining the craft of Suspense. As fair warning, we will veer into how to weave romance into yoru suspense for a week or two, should we have those out there who want to straddle the fence. Still, the focus this year will be on the framework, suspense […]
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Tutorial on Showing verses Telling
Showing verses telling is a common topic in writing circles, especially among new writers. It can get kind of confusing after awhile because there are soooo many thoughts on how to show and not tell, variations on definitions, etc. It’s crazy. Will you do some telling? Yes! If you write, “His brown hair curled over his forehead,” that’s “telling.” You just told me what his hair was doing. Telling in the arena of doing, action, (she walked across the room) description is… wait for it… PROSE. Books are compiled for prose and dialog. So yes, describe things, tell the reader things, except… For how the characters are feeling. SHOW me emotion. SHOW me action that applied to the emotion. SHOW me the heroine or heros actions. Imagine you’re sitting in […]
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I’m about done with a first draft of a book I started the first of November. I’m quite satisfied with having written 76k words in six weeks, but I have a few more to go before writing The End. Then, I’ll start all over. The story needs a lot of sanding and polishing. But I like what I have so far. Usually, about 2/3rds through the first draft, I make a major discovery that sort of brings the whole story together for me. I’ll stop writing forward and go back to the beginning and rewrite. The process usually goes quickly because I know what I’m doing. But this time, I’m not stopping. I’ve made some major character discoveries. I’m even changing a major character’s setting. But that’s okay. I’m not […]
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I`ve been thinking about becoming a writer when I finish school, and I was wondering how you got started. I think a writer has to be two things from the get-go – a lover of stories, and someone who is committed to working hard. I was the kind of girl when I was young who would pedal her bike to the library and spend the entire day reading…I loved stories and getting lost inside another world. As I turned my sights toward writing, I looked at the kind of books I read, and tried to figure out why they worked, or didn’t work, and my favorite part about them. Then, I began to write. And this is the hard work part. I wrote and wrote – for myself, for […]
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