Character

©2008, Vicki Hinze What follows is a handout from a workshop on CHARACTER from this past weekend at the Emerald Coast Writers Conference. Actually, I’m going to have to link to it.  It’s 12 pages long, so there’s no way to post the entire thing here without...

The Pitch

Pitching your novel to an editor or agent causes many writers anxiety.  Here are a few tips that will hopefully squelch that! Remember:  No matter how much an editor loves your book, s/he can’t buy what s/he can’t sell.  So when you pitch… 1. Know what you’re...

Help! I’m Baffled What Does He Mean?

I received a note with the subject line:  HELP!  I’M BAFFLED.  WHAT DOES HE MEAN? Now who can resist stopping to read a note referenced like that?  So I did–stop, that is–and read the note.  It was from an author who had received a rejection from an...

Birthday Wish and Hopes

Birthdays are special days–and at times in our lives when we’ve thought we wouldn’t have any or many more of them, we learn a new appreciation for them.  Actually, it’s a new appreciation for life itself, but the day is the perfect day to acknowledge and...

Contentment

When writing, we don’t often think specifically about a character’s contentment.  There’s a reason for that:  we’re in the conflict business.  That, conflict, not contentment, is the spine of our novels.  But contentment isn’t the same thing as a lack of conflict.  It...

Immediacy

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Now that income taxes are done (THANK YOU!!!!), two things are on my mind this morning.  Well, actually, three things, but two apply to writing so I’ll chat about those. The first thing came from a phone conversation I had with...
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