Writing

A Protagonist’s Anatomy #3: Character Traits

It’s time for part 3 in this little series of posts collectively entitled A Protagonist’s Anatomy.…
Throwback Thursday: Fiction- Reality Refined

There are two kinds of story in this world. Those that are not at all true…
Spotlight: Anachronist by Andrew Hastie

One step away from prison, 17-year-old Joshua Jones steals a WW2 medal from the house of…
Monday Motivation

Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed…
A Protagonist’s Anatomy #2: Backstory

Put simply, a backstory is everything that happened to your protagonist before the events of your…
Throwback Thursday: How to Kill Someone (in Fiction) and Get Away With It

The death of a main character can easily be one of the main turning points in…
Spotlight: Haze by Rebecca Crunden

When Eliza Owens gets a phone call in the middle of the night from a girl…
Monday Motivation

If I waited for perfection I would never write a word.
A Protagonist’s Anatomy #1: Motive, Goals, Conflict & Epiphany

And so for the first post in the series it seemed only right that I begin…
Throwback Thursday: Can’t Afford Scrivener? Try yWriter.

Many years ago, when I decided to make my first serious attempt at writing a novel,…