Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. – Barbara Kingsolver
Your heroine is sorting through her grandma’s belongings in an attic. She finds a large pink hatbox. She opens it. What does she find?
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Time:10-20 minutes Your ability to bring unique and accurate descriptions to people, places and things in your story will help bring your readers in. They’ll be able to see and visualize exactly what you visualized when you wrote the story. And as you know, that’s the power of good writing. Making a story feel so [...]
Being a romance writer, or aspiring to be a romance writer, is a tough job! Writers, and I assume many artists, struggle with fantasies of perfection. We read a novel by our favorite author and then hold ourselves to that standard. That’s ridiculous! Published authors have many advantages the yet to be published do not: [...]
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. – Melinda Haynes
I submitted a synopsis and a query a few months ago to a publisher. They responded promptly with a very nice email and requested the first three chapters – YAY! I heard back from the editor today and she had the following comment: “If you would like to make revisions based on my above comments, [...]
Story starters are a great way to spend a Sunday. They can also kick start your creative juices and get them flowing – making it a very productive week writing romance. A woman on the run finds $500,000. She knows who it belongs to, a sexy stranger who helped her out of a dangerous situation. [...]
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