Tag: writing-tips
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What Scenes are Hardest to Write?
Key scenes are easy and exciting. They flow off the page without much effort. But the quiet scenes, the in-between scenes…these ones take some work.
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How Long Does it Take to Write a Book?
I expect there are some authors out there who simply sit down and write a book, and it’s all wonderfully straight forward. I, however, am not one of those authors. My books seem to need a twistier, more confusing path towards completion.
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5 Reasons Main Characters Are the Hardest to Write
It’s easy to criticize an author for failing to write a compelling main character. But in my experience, main characters are the absolute hardest characters to write. Give me a villain, a best friend, or a love interest any day. But main characters are hard!
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5 Strategies to Maintain Momentum as a Writer
Being an author is, at times, the easiest thing I’ve ever done, and, at other times, the hardest thing I’ve ever done. For me, the hardest part of being a writer is momentum. Maintaining the momentum to see a project through from start to finish. I would hazard a guess that this is a common…