My usual disclaimer, none of this is meant to be legal advice. Do not take it as such. If you want specific legal advice, hire a lawyer....

How do you show your characters’ personalities? How do you show they are good? Or not? No, really, think of the opening scene of any kind...

Welcome to another writerslife Wednesday. What are you characters afraid of? And I don’t mean they go, “Eek!” at spiders. I mean real...

This is sort of a post on law, but I want you to read it in terms of how you can apply these kinds of quandaries to your characters....

I’m getting Psychic Undercover (with the Undead) (SDF book 1) ready to go for publication next week and one thing I like to do with my...

If you ask any writer what the biggest mistake a new writer can make is, they’ll give you a ton of different answers.  There’s stuff...

This is part self actualizing and part writing exercise.  Who are you?  List 5 traits that make you, you.  I don’t mean the surface stuff...

Today I was telling a girl at work how scared I am to be publishing.  My first story comes out on Sunday and I’m freaking out, I told...

Everybody’s got issues.  That means your characters have to as well.  You can’t have someone who’s got it all, obviously, and you can’t...

I have a hair trigger on my panic response for a few select things.  Anything with bugs, shots or unexpected expenses… or my ex 🙂  So a...

Last week I talked about the plot fixer, now we’re tackling the weak character.  I don’t mean someone who is weak themselves, I mean...

Have you heard of the Myers-Briggs personality test?  Have you taken it?  Did you read the description and think, “That’s creepy, it’s...

Have you heard of the Myers-Briggs personality test?  Have you taken it?  Did you read the description and think, That’s creepy, it’s...