Posted on November 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Characters aren’t the only elements of your story for which you need to choose names. There are businesses, sometimes, and...
Posted on October 26, 2021 at 12:19 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The October edition of Desmond’s Drops pays special attention to the question of desire in characters. In the first two...
Posted on June 29, 2021 at 1:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Author Kim Hooper shared her advice on writing far-away (or nearby but unfamiliar) settings with Writer’s Digest last week. And...
Posted on June 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Now that many of us can travel more freely, the first tip in author Kim Hooper’s advice piece on setting...
Posted on June 22, 2021 at 9:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Authors frequently talk about how characters make plot decisions for them, sometimes to their great surprise. So it’s not a...
Posted on June 14, 2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Authors of any genre want to keep their readers deeply immersed in the story, not stopping to scratch their heads...
Posted on April 28, 2021 at 1:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Setting may not be the first issue a writer thinks about when it comes to working on a crime novel....
Posted on January 11, 2021 at 10:52 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Regular readers of our C.S. Lakin posts know the value of bringing a scene’s setting to life. Her latest advice...
Posted on November 4, 2020 at 3:34 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Past teachers may have encouraged you to add adjectives and adverbs to your essays and discouraged you from beginning a...
Posted on August 13, 2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The town in which we attended college was, objectively, not an interesting place: 18,000 residents (counting generously), few of the...
