by Kayleigh | Dec 30, 2022 | Writing Tips
As you look to next year and consider resolutions, remember to go easy on yourself. Remember your mental health. Word count goals are great. Number of books (or pages) read is great, too. But so is down time for your brain to be quiet and to... by Kayleigh | Dec 23, 2022 | Editing Tips, Writing Tips
Round characters are complex, with depth and motivation that helps them to evolve throughout the story. Flat characters are, well, flat. We likely don’t know why and how they are who they are or what they like. They’re easy to sum up in a word or two. Your story... by Kayleigh | Nov 25, 2022 | Writing Tips
Stop comparing your draft to published work. Just as we don’t look like magazine models who are taped into dresses or bathing suits and then airbrushed, your draft isn’t going to look as polished as work that’s gone through multiple rounds of editing and revision.... by Kayleigh | Nov 18, 2022 | Writing Tips
Didn’t hit your word count goal yesterday or last week? Restart the clock. Missed it again? Restart the clock. Forgive and move on. The more time you give to thinking about what you DIDN’T write, the less time you have to write now. This post is from the Friday... by Kayleigh | Oct 14, 2022 | Writing Tips
First-person POV opens you up to the fun of an unreliable narrator. Because we lose the all-knowing perspective of third-person omniscient, first-person allows for info to be withheld (deliberately or not) or skewed through the character’s experiences or reader... by Kayleigh | Oct 7, 2022 | Writing Tips
Your story doesn’t have to be told in order. Plenty of wonderful books aren’t. But if time is shifting (flashbacks, flash-forwards, flash-sideways) then you as the writer need to spend extra time and attention ensuring your reader doesn’t become lost and...
