When I met with my critique group this past weekend, I submitted a major turning point scene from the novel. This was an action scene, which needed a lot of work.
So this week on the blog, I’m going to concentrate on action scenes. What makes them work? What are the characteristics of a good action [...]

For those of you who read this blog, you already know how much I love to talk about the writing craft. Yes, I’m a nerd that way.
Since the day job is still a shade of crazy (I have ONE more week left until this software release), I figured I would share with you a blog [...]

A while ago I wrote a blog post about the book, Art of War for Writers by James Scott Bell.
So it is ironic that now I’m writing a blog post about a book titled The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
I stumbled upon this book a few weeks ago, and was grateful to have [...]

Ah, so much for not blogging anymore this week! But one of my writer friends, Christine Taylor-Butler shared something off of Twitter of all places—wow, I must look into this Twitter thing—it seems like all the cool kids are doing it.
Anyway, Christine shared a blog post over at the My Story Writer blog. The post, [...]

A lot of writers do character sketches. Some writers do interviews with their characters. Some even do whole biographies from birth to current novel time for character development.
One thing that I do consistently that sort of helps me figure out a character in the very beginning is to do a Myers-Brigg assessment of the character [...]