We’ve finally reached the place were we get to choose what our hero and heroine look like! We’ve had a lively discussion the last couple weeks on Voices, and I went through and listed all the heroes and heroine suggestions — great suggestions! However, we could pick from ten, so I picked ten of each. If you want to look back at the bios of our hero and heroine before you vote, go here. Then, pick their names. Again, I took these from our discussion. When you’re done don’ t forget to stop by Voices and add your ideas for the Inciting Incident and the Epiphany! (look for the discussions: Lies vs. Truth, and Inciting Incident) Vote! Every Voice counts. (Keep scrolling — there are four polls!) Online Surveys & Market Research […]
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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
We have a story!
The Actress and the Park Ranger! What, you didn’t like my talk show/teacher idea? Aw, my poor banjo-playing history teacher. But onward we go with our everyday Park Ranger hero, and our Celebrity! We have a few more elements to create before we can draft our story summary, and figure out the key points of the story… First – we need to figure out the hero and heroine’s spiritual epiphany. This is different than the black moment, which is all about their fears. The spiritual epiphany is what they experience shortly before or after the black moment, and it’s what the story is leading up to. So, to discover what the spiritual epiphany in, we need to look back into their past, and figure out what event or situation affected […]
Read the RestFrom the Inside….Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you!
I’m so excited to announce that….I wrote a writing book!! I’ve been wanting to do this for a few years now, a response to so many of the basic, but essential questions that participants in my beginning writer’s workshops ask. How you do you plot? How you develop characters? How you do you pitch a book? What goes into a scene? How do I craft a black moment? And can you help me do it? Yes! And, it doesn’t have to be overwhelming! I believe that writing a book doesn’t have to be agonizing, that it can come from your heart, and still be put inside a framework of proven storytelling. And this book, my method of looking inside for your plot and characters, teaches you how. Here’s a little […]
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I hope you’re already dreaming up an inciting incident for your favorite premise! I know I am. But before we do that, we need to know who our characters are. Yesterday, I outlined the hero and heroine of the Talk Show Host and the Teacher. Today, let’s take a look at the Actress and the Park Ranger Who is our Actress? Our Actress has worked hard to get where she is. She was a good girl, a hard worker growing up, and her parents put her through school. She moved to Hollywood to follow her dream, and was an overnight success. She married an A-list star and life seemed to be going her direction…until she decided to make an indy film exposing the flesh-for-sale industry overseas…and the […]
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