When your characters come alive, writing is exhilarating! My labor of love lately has been new characters and plots! It's an aspect of life I very much enjoy—beginning a new story.They say that a writer's life can be solitary. Most...
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Fall In Love With Your Characters
WHEN YOU SPEND YEARS WRITING A NOVEL OR A SCREENPLAY—you'd better fall in love with your characters.
5 VITAL STEPS BEFORE YOU WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL
Writing Your First Novel? You've talked about it for years. Well, let's stop procrastinating and get to work, shall we? Would you like some tips before you begin?Here are some ideas that might help. Having completed five novels and three...
Book Review: Barbera’s Christian Mystery & Second Chance Love Story “The First Rains of October”
Local author’s new book, The First Rains of October brings literary sentiment to the area. By Colin Ortstadt –Sonoma Sun.The first sentence of Anthony Barbera’s novel, The First Rains of October, reads like a Lee Child thriller. “When August St....
Unveiling the Fantastical Reality Beyond Sci-fi in Biblical Records: Exploring the Origin of Giants
(Christian Fiction is any novel that states and illustrates a Christian worldview in its plot, its characters, or both.) The fact is many of us love science fiction and fantasy. However, you might ask, why would I (a Christian) write...
How Do I Find a Story’s Theme?
Then there was "theme,” a most important element in writing your first novel, yet it's elusive to many. Most of us recognize the theme or theme song in a musical work, especially in film and television. Easily remembered is the musical theme...
