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Artists who wait for inspiration to strike spend a lot of time waiting.  I know this because I was formerly such an artist.  I believed that I should not force my writing, but that I should let it come to me naturally.  I thought that discipline

If characters had nothing to struggle against, they would stay the same.  They wouldn’t transform and grow and arc.  A character changes because she is either in conflict against another person, or herself or the world.  In Olive Branches

When I got my first negative review, I was devastated and angry.  It was not from any sort of professional or semi-professional book reviewer, or even a person who had several reviews already on Amazon.  In fact, there was only one other review

In several reviews of my book, readers mentioned that they were invested in the novels characters’ and that they really cared about what happened to them.  This feeling of concern is what motivates readers to stay with a book and to turn the

Dialogue reveals an abundance of information about characters:   Their  thoughts, motivations, personality, strengths, weaknesses, desires, dislikes, etc.  So writing good dialogue is crucial in creating a good novel. Dialogue should be natural