Toolbox Tuesday: Bunnies Hop, Books Do Not
Bunnies hop. Feet hop on hot pavement. Toddlers can hop and hop and hop . . . Dr. Seuss likes to “hop on Pop.” But readers should not be...
Toolbox Tuesday: Creating Characters
This week for Toolbox Tuesday we are going to switch from prose to content, specifically characters. After all, characters are an...
Toolbox Tuesday: Unnecessary Words, Part One: Redundancy
When I finished my first novel, Keeping Secrets, it came in at a whopping 180,000 words. Of course, that was way way way too long. It was...
Toolbox Tuesday: Tags are Not Just for Shopping
Tags. New authors love them. Seasoned authors hate them. And no, I am not speaking of shopping. For those of you who do not know, tags...
Creating Characters with the Four Temperaments (as well as understanding character motivation in lit
I read recently that Mary Higgins Clark works several books at one time. Never thought I could do that, but apparently I can as I not...
