It’s challenging at this fledgling state of my writing career to move forward, simply because there are so many paths I could be moving forward on. I started this week beginning to go in depth with my main characters, with the help of strategies learned in Getting Into Character. [...]

I don’t mean wearing a hole in the floor when under stress, I mean building appropriate tension throughout a story!
As I continue to mine the bountiful gold of Swain’s “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, pacing has become an issue. My writing prof said it would happen, but I didn’t [...]