Oh, lookie here. Still on the alphabet. Ahem. Okay, barely started on the alphabet. What’s particularly fun that starts with D? Noun: Dialogue. My writing buddies tell me I’m naturally good at writing dialogue. Not telling my weak spot–not today! (It doesn’t start with D.) Adverb: Decisively. “I didn’t get to be an excellent writer…
But it should be! Noun: Characters. Like living humans, the characters in our favorite novels come in many shapes and sizes. It’s challenging (ooooh, a C!) to come up with varied personalities, heroes and villains, adults and children, each with goals and motivations of their own. Such fun. Verb: Create. And with those characters in…
Looks like I’m going to be learning many more adverbs as I work my way through the alphabet in the next few months! Noun: Bread–since discovering soft winter wheat, I’m finally making fabulous 100% whole wheat bread from local organic grains. Yippee! Verb: Brand is a verb many authors talk about. What genre of writing…
Time to change up the blog! For the next 26 weeks it will be Sesame Street around here. Noun: ACFW — If you’re a novelist and a Christian and you don’t belong to American Christian Fiction Writers, why not? Verb: Amble — Something I’ve been doing too much of lately. It’s time to kick my…