Hello Friends and welcome to our new Monday series – Writer Q & A with Susie May (okay, I thought the rhyme was fun, I admit it). But this year I’m answering the hundreds of questions we get every year at MBT – trying to help you figure out this writing journey. This week’s question is: Should I write a story based on real life…or should I make it up? Great question, and we talk about the difference of Memoirs and Novels in this short video. Hope you enjoy it -and should you have any questions about the writing life, email them to: info@mybooktherapy.com! We’ll do our best to answer them. Would you prefer to listen to this on your MP3? Here you go! Audio Version Have a great writing […]
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About Susan May Warren
Former Russian Missionary Susan May Warren is the best-selling author of more than 40 novels and novellas with Tyndale, Barbour and Steeple Hill, and Summerside. A Christy award and RITA winner, and multiple finalist for the RITA, Christy and winner of Inspirational Readers Choice contest, Susan currently has over a million books in print. A seasoned women’s events speaker and writing teacher, she is the founder of http://www.mybooktherapy.com an online community for writers, and runs a fiction editing service teaching writers how to tell a great story. Visit her online at: http://www.susanmaywarren.com.Author Archive | Susan May Warren
Featured Fiction Presents: Cara Putman
Howdy Folks! In the heat and passion of MBT WriMo, the Fraiser contest seems a little far away and forgotten. Today though, we are going to take a look at one of the people who made it possible. Introducing Cara Putman and her new book A Wedding Transpires on Mackinac Island. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your story? Can the truth set Alanna Stone free? Attorney Alanna Stone has never forgotten Jonathon Covington–or the pain of his betrayal. In fact, he’s why she’s avoided returning to Mackinac Island. But an exhausting, high profile case and an urgent plea from her parents bring her home. She immediately finds herself thrust into controversy as an unsolved murder once again turns public opinion against her family. Jonathon has been […]
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The Beauty of Fairy Tales
Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all are recovered from the holidays and back to your routine, back to writing. I’m in the midst of writing my second royal series book, this one about an American girl who discovers she’s a long lost princess. As I’ve been working through the first book and now the second, I realized each one has a fairy tale structure. Susie got jazzed about me blogging on this topic. The fairy tale structure is rich and entertaining. Though like all storytelling, it still requires me to dig in and work the story that is true to the characters. All the great thing we learn here at My Book Therapy on story structure still apply. Even more so in fairytales. The story world. The dark wound […]
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Idea Sparking: Getting Out of Writer’s Block Strategy #1
Every now and again that dreaded moment for every writer descends over your manuscript. You can’t shake it, no matter how hard you try. You’ve got writer’s block. There are no words appearing on the page and your brain is experiencing dead air. Writer’s block can paralyze you and leave you stranded in a particular dilemma in your manuscript unless you put some strategies in place a head of time to stave off writer’s block. Idea Sparking Your Way Out of Writer’s Block Strategy #1: Research Wait just one minute, you say. I did all of my research at the beginning of the story. Now, I’m writing. True you WERE writing, but since that has ground to a halt, doing a bit more research could get you back in print. […]
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