Posted by June Love Apr 22 2013, 12:01 am
Not long ago, a discussion occurred on our Ruby Sister loop about husbands. Yes, husbands. Like that never happens, right? I know most of you are probably saying, “Enough said”, but actually this wasn’t your typical “my husband doesn’t help me”, “my husband is jealous of my writing time”, or “my husband doesn’t understand the [...]
Posted by Elisa Beatty Apr 5 2013, 12:08 am
When he sits down to write, the playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie never starts without his “What.” What is a “What”? Van Itallie describes the “What” in his wonderful and inspiring book on writing, The Playwright’s Workbook. Here’s how he describes it: If the story or plot is the backbone of a play, the “What” is [...]
Posted by Liz Bemis Mar 29 2013, 12:00 am in craft, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, HBO, storytelling
I’d like to put this out there right now. I am NOT cool. I’ve often longed to be cool, but after 40 years on this planet, I recognize that if I do something that seems cool, it probably started out as someone else’s idea, or it was an accident. And so it goes with my [...]
Posted by Heather McCollum Mar 12 2013, 1:00 am in craft, POV, resources
Words. There are millions to choose from as a writer. Yet the wrong word, or the right word said by the wrong person, can completely throw your reader out of the amazing world you’ve created. Nooo! If they pop out of your story and suddenly remember that they should be doing laundry they might put [...]
Posted by Kate Parker Oct 29 2012, 12:19 am
or, we don’t allow talking heads here. In honor of Halloween, we’re going to talk about a subject today that groans and shivers. Setting. A talking head is just a term for dialog-heavy writing where the reader has no sense of where the characters are, what they look like, and what they’re doing. Unless the [...]
Posted by Anne Barton Oct 11 2012, 12:00 am in craft, hooks, valerie bowman
Hello Rubies and Friends, Thank you so much for having me today. I’m Valerie Bowman, a 2011 Golden Heart finalist in the Regency category and I’m here to celebrate my debut (and GH-finaling manuscript) SECRETS OF A WEDDING NIGHT which is in stores (and online) now. I thought long and hard about what I could [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Langston Sep 27 2012, 12:01 am
‘Tis the season to celebrate aspiring authors. With NaNoWriMo and the Golden Heart deadline just around the corner, I thought you might enjoy hearing from an aspiring young author. Guest-blogging with us today is Amy Langston, a high-school senior and writer with amazing talent. (I say that as her completely biased mother!)
Posted by Kate Parker Sep 7 2012, 12:01 am
I’ve been writing romantic suspense and historical romance for years with the same result. My characters have exchanged heated glances, longing touches, and stolen kisses. They’ve been tied up together against I-beams and narrowly escaped drowning, stabbing, and being run down by carriages. Now they’re ready for their big love scene. I begin removing their [...]
Posted by Autumn Jordon Aug 31 2012, 12:01 am in Autumn Jordon, Beginnings, craft, openings, romantic suspense
To open a can of flat worms you need a nail, hammer and a flat-head screwdriver. The extraction should be done outside, because flat worms are smelly buggers, and man, can they move fast. You wouldn’t want to find them slithering between the sheets later. They like 800 count Egyptian cotton. Did I get [...]
Posted by Elise Hayes Jul 31 2012, 12:01 am
Re-Envisioning Revision Nationals is (sadly) over and it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get back to writing. I’m in the throes of revising my third manuscript so I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to approach revisions. Here’s what I see as the first rule of revision: You can’t revise something [...]
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