Quick Tip #13

Quick Tip #13 Writing a novel? This tip is for you!

Quick Tip #7

Worried your characters might sound too much alike? Each character should have a way of speaking, phrases or words they use specific to them. They need to be distinctive because in a novel, their words are one of the main things readers have to understand their personality. You don’t want five of the same characters…

Quick Tip # 5

Don’t just tell us what eye color they had. That won’t give us very much insight into the character. Instead tell us if their eyes are shifty, soft, wrinkled, deep, watery, bloodshot, or other descriptors. This will let us know more about them as a character and leads you into an easy way to either…

Quick Tip #4

If you get stuck in your story, ask yourself three questions. 1) “What does my character want?” 2) “How can I make that difficult to achieve?” 3) ”What are the consequences if they don’t get it?” Proceed to make each answer more intense than the last time you asked and go from there.

Quick Tip #2

Is your story one blob of text that looks daunting to the most enthusiastic reader? Here are the times when you should make a new paragraph: When someone new is speaking. After dialogue before action that is not directly related to the speaker. When a new person arrives When the setting changes When you introduce…