Do Your Characters Pee or Brush Their Teeth?
If you’re a writer, do your characters pee? I had a funny interaction with a fantasy writer today who said that his…
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Don’t Let Other Writers Get You Down
I think my latest book, Carillon’s Corpus, is up and on its feet again. It’s still wobbly, but at least it isn’t a…
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Writing While Swimming with Sharks
Writers will tell you there are three types of writers: Pantsers, those who write extemporaneously (by the seat of their…
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Giving Gifts to Characters
I enjoy giving my characters gifts to help them through the story. I don’t mean wings or magical abilities—although…
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Writing an Ongoing Relationship
I’m writing about Thomas and Hadrian again. They’re on a new case, searching for a new killer and running into a…
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When Characters Surprise You
I love when a character tells me something new about him. When I’m constructing a main character, I make notes about his…
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Going Back in Time
One of the fun things about writing Carillon’s Curse, my gay paranormal western gothic romance, was researching…
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Do You Know Your Genre?
I started 2022 working on the sequel to Carillon’s Curse and am enjoying being with Thomas and Hadrian again. I’ll get…
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