How to make your characters sound like people: who are they talking to?
How well do you know your fictional characters?
September 3, 2012 By Shaquanda Dalton
My debut novel, When Love Hurts, have just been sent to my editor and I’m very excited to receive his criticism and/or words of encouragement. As I wait, I thought about all the aspects of having a story you can be proud of. We all want to create a story that we can look back […]
January 20, 2013 By Shaquanda Dalton
Sometimes when I’m sitting down to write I can’t think of how to start. I know what I need to say. And I know what the scene’s about, I just don’t know what the first line should be. I figured I wasn’t the only writer with this problem, so I decided to share exactly how […]
March 11, 2014 By Shaquanda Dalton
Choices help define who we are. What we do in our lives gives off to other people what kind of person we are. And if life we can choose to make good choices, bad choices, hard choices or easy choices. If you, or someone you know, has a lot of easy choices to make in life […]
July 13, 2012 By Shaquanda Dalton
I love romance novels. They make me fall in love with the main characters and visualize their lives together once I finish the novel. I’m not sure who reads romance novels more between men and women but I wouldn’t be surprised the answer was women. We love that emotional gushy stuff that warm our hearts […]