Readers want strong main characters. No one wants to read a story with a weak one. I knew that. Really I did. Why, then, did I end up with a weak heroine? Soon after my awesome agent offered representation, I received my first set of Revision... Read More
Ever just want to grab your protagonist by the shoulders and scream, "Who are you?" It happened recently, one of those fabulously brutal critiques in which a friend labeled the darling of my story a cardboard cutout. The advice from my writing... Read More
Invite the characters of your present work into a room and ask them who the most important person in your novel is. Go ahead, I’ll wait. If all their hands shot up at once, if some bounced off their seats, if you heard someone shout... Read More