As I’ve been plotting my fantasy novel, I realized I need to ramp up the tension a bit. Adding a few vicious monsters seems like a good way to make life difficult for my characters. A quick google search led to over an hour surfing the net. I stared wide-eyed at the pictures of animals …
My parents brought me up to finish what I start. If I have too many unfinished projects, my anxiety level goes up and my emergency chocolate stash gets depleted. So I’ve always been kind of compulsive about reading a book to the end. Maybe it’s the eternal optimist in me that thinks surely it will …
Lately I’ve been thinking about changing genres to try writing a novel. One of the things that makes me nervous about such an undertaking is the whole idea of character development. Would I be able to create believable characters that readers would care about and want to know what happens to them? Good question. One …