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We’ll Make It Through (Book 3)
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Using Choices To Define Your Characters and Move Your Story Forward
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 […]
The Pros and Cons of the Flashback Scene
Most readers, at some point in their long line of reading history, have read a flashback or a back story scene. It’s the scene that’s not exactly moving the story forward but giving the readers a better picture of the history of the protagonist. (Or antagonist depending on whose flashback it is.) But does flashback […]
Is Your Story Really Complete?
Your story is the piece of work that you’ve labored over for weeks, months, or even years to finish. But is it really finished yet? Is the story you’ve worked on so hard really, truly ready to be on sale? I raise this question because I’m going over my checklist of making sure a story […]