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A writer’s dilemma: Motivation
Someone in a writer’s group posed the question – Does your main character need to have an intense motivation for something? What does your character want? The Op’s dilemma was that her character didn’t want anything – until the end. It seems to me lack of clear motivation means the character is on a journey Read more
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Leaving it all to the imagination
In one of my writer’s forums, the topic was- how much description does a reader want? The questioner disliked descriptive detail unnecessary to the plot, preferring to let their own imagination build the scene and populate the character attributes. I found this very interesting, and the commenters to this post either loved as much detail Read more
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Rosie and Sinclair must talk-A Misalliance with Love.
Rosie sat by herself in her favorite armchair by the fire with an unopened book in her lap. She had hoped he would grow to like her. Instead, he had burst in talking about bills and people visiting her when he had never shown any interest in what she had planned. He never asked her Read more
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Rosie’s thoughts-A Misalliance with Love
“Rosie knew that she had said some things to him in anger, things that she regretted now. When she had asked him to leave her alone, she had not meant it in the way that he had taken it. But it seemed that he was too proud to reach out to her or too ashamed Read more
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Dinner scenes make me so hungry!
One thing I’ve noticed in historical romance novels is that the female main character rarely has a healthy appetite. Why is that? An author can describe a meal where course after succulent course is brought to the table, yet our heroine either has no appetite or has quickly lost it and ends up pushing food Read more
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I wanted more Figaro in the story!
“Figaro’s attention quickly shifted to the miniature wooden horse he had found in the nursery. He nudged her side in a gentle demand for attention, and she dropped to the floor beside him, the skirt of her pale green day dress billowing around her. Laughing, she attempted to wrestle the toy from his jaws.” Excerpt Read more
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DEE HARPER LEWIS 