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wagnetic: fatally-procrastinating: Adverbs aren’t evil; said isn’t dead Please stop hitting the wall with your head Active is grand but not always the best Sometimes it’s passive that passes the test Some write with style, others write plain Let’s all agree that writing’s a pain The ‘rules’ can be broken, twisted, or bent All that matters... Continue Reading →

barrierspark: bookphile: Female-Driven Genre-Fiction Wishlist: Girl teams, all girl teams. Female characters of color who actually represent their culture. Less self-sacrificing, martyr girls more girls and women who do things for themselves without feeling bad about it or people judging them for it. Mothers who do things other than parent and cook. Mother and daughter... Continue Reading →

Hi, love!  Thanks so much for your question 🙂  This is hard to define without knowing the story and the characters, but I’ll go off what I’ve experienced as a reader/viewer/lover of romance.When writing a romance plot, the most important part of the back-and-forth is growth in the relationship.  Typically, people think of romance plots as... Continue Reading →

fictionwritingtips: These basic plots are from the Tennessee Screenwriting Association, but I thought it would be useful to share them with you all. Many writers believe that there are only so many “basic plots” that make up a story, 20 of them to be exact, and that it all depends on how you develop these... Continue Reading →