Here we go…chapter ONE, scene ONE of…??? (okay, we need to name our book!) Scroll to the bottom after you read the scene and I’ll discuss for a moment the choices I made in putting this scene together. Chapter 1.1 “Just once, I’d like to take the Oscar walk down Hollywood Boulevard in my jeans, a blue devil’s tee-shirt, and a pair of flipflops.” MacKenzie Grace pulled her wrap tight around her shoulders, even as the February chill found the liberal gaps in her dress and raised gooseflesh. A thousand lights blinked down at her from the Kodak Theater, and around her, limousines honked and maneuvered to the end of the red carpet. Exhaust mixed with the fragrances of a thousand starlets and the earthy smell from […]
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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
I’m making an executive decision.
There will be no voting about the Inciting Incident. Because, well, I want to surprise you. First, the Voices have come up with some incredible inciting incidents, and part of the problem is…well, they’re so good I want to use bits of and piece of many of them. I can’t break them apart to vote on. But, Secondly (and I’m writing this as I’m getting my weekly Grey’s fix), this is a teaching blog (hospital) and while it’s great for you all to scrub in along the way, hold the scalpel, and even do the procedures, (and probably some even better than we would!) someone needs to be the attending. To use their experience to sort of guide us all in the right direction. Which means me, and Rachel. […]
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Does my hero HAVE to believe in a lie? We get this question sometimes when we’re working with clients in a Book Therapy session. Clients have done so much work creating the character, trying to figure out who he is, and it just seems like another mindless question. It’s not. In fact, I build my characters on just a few key questions, the most important ones that comprise our lives. You’ve seen some of them in this process…greatest fears, greatest dreams, values, motivations. The Lie They Believe is one of the essential questions that threads throughout the entire book. Without the lie, you don’t know what the truth is you’re aiming for. Without the lie, you don’t know how he/she builds their lives, what their view on […]
Read the RestWe have faces and names!
Our hero looks like….Dylan Bruno! (And if you ever want to see this actor in action, check him out on Numbers, Friday nights!) His name is…Luke. I love that name. Jaxon and Caleb came in close seconds…which means, if we can, we’ll use those names for secondary characters. =). Our heroine looks like: Isla Fisher! (If you’re wondering where you’ve seen her face before…check out the new Shopaholic movie!) And her name will be…MacKenzie! We’ll have to see if our hero ends up calling her Mac..or Kenzie…or…??? Mia came in second…she sounds like a good friend for MacKenzie. So, so there we have it….faces, and names for our hero and heroine! In the meantime, don’t forget to hop over to Club Book Therapy and add your VOICE to the Inciting […]
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