What’s a plot buddy, you wonder? It’s the pal who loves to hear about your stories as you are writing them and enjoys pitching in and helping you with your plot. It’s wonderfully inspiring to simply talk out loud about your story and bounce ideas around. It’s a bonus if... read more
I’m loving connecting with all the smart authors and bloggers I’ve met online. This is a guest blog post by Renee Regent with her tips for how to stay organized while writing a series. Stay Organized While Writing Whether you begin writing with the idea for one story or have the... read more
Writing discipline: no professional writer can do without it. Writing Discipline Tip #1: Know Your Biorhythm Every writer has a biorhythm, and every writer’s is different. It may take some time to find your optimal time of the day or night to saddle up and get to work. I remember... read more
Toya Richardson is my guest blogger today. Writing for me has been a continual learning curve, one that will continue I’m sure. These are some of the processes I go through, which may be of use to you. Toya Richardson: Get Writing #1 Coming up with and writing the story... read more
Calling all romance novelists who write Medievals! You can brush up on your knowledge of heraldry by checking out the London College of Arms, aka College of Heralds, pictured above and located at 130 Queen Victoria Street. Heraldry: Origins A herald, or herald of arms, was originally a king’s or... read more
On Monday March 26 Hae-Young Kim, the Chair of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages at Duke University, organized a symposium on the Korean language. It was entitled “Politics of language and identity: Korean speakers in the peripheries of the national and transnational.” In the title photo you see, from the... read more
….even if you’ve already written dozens of them. Today is a guest blog by romance writer Devika Fernando on the art of writing a great kissing scene. “A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear.” – Ingrid Bergman When some people find out that I... read more
Fridging versus The Grieving Widower merits the subtitle: The Troublesome Pattern of Killing Off Female Characters. We writers know that the only thing as fun as creating a character is killing one off. Here I’d like to come to awareness of what we’re doing when we’re killing off a character,... read more
I don’t usually read graphic novels probably because so few of them involve romantic plots, but I did run across Jen Wang‘s The Prince and the Dressmaker (2018) because the New York Times crossword blogger I read, namely Rex Parker, recommended it as a romance. As it happened, one of her... read more
I learned the unhappy history of tipping in the U.S. only within the past month. Then I was inspired to write this blog upon reading an op-ed piece by Danny Meyer, the highly successful New York restaurateur who was my model for Gino Milano, the hero of Love After All. Tipping customs... read more