I’m going to give away my secrets. Well, maybe not ALL of them, but I’ve been sprinkling them through the posts and chats over the past six months as I’ve talked about writing romances, and I thought I would gather them all in one place.
What are Lethal Weapons? Oh, these are the elements of [...]
Category Archives: romance
Lethal Weapons in Romance
July 13, 2010 – 10:00 am
It’s bad…very very bad. (aka: Crafting the Black Moment!)
May 5, 2010 – 10:00 am
I love the black moment in a novel. (or a movie!) I just saw Avatar…(so, spoiler alert!!)) The black moment is when the humans come after the blue people in the tree and take it down despite his efforts to stop it. Of course, he’s lost the girl, he’s lost all hope of getting his [...]
Building the right backstory
April 21, 2010 – 11:00 am
We’re trying to help our readers fall in love with our characters this week at MBT….and one way you do this is through “Character Layering” – or slowly revealing the heart of your character—to your other characters in the story and, ultimately, to your reader.
But doesn’t my reader need to know about my character [...]
