NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: GLAD, MAD AND SAD – Blog # 27        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: GLAD, MAD AND SAD – Blog # 27. Glad, mad and sad – emotions, emotions, emotions! In every novel, there are characters full of emotions. How are characters’ emotions written on the page? What emotions does an author want readers to feel – blissfully happy and excited for a character,Continue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: GLAD, MAD AND SAD – Blog # 27        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: THE LOVER OR THE CLICHÉ – Blog # 26        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: THE LOVER OR THE CLICHÉ – Blog # 26. This is Paris. There must be a lover in my new Paris book. Why? Because this is Paris. Oh, the cliché! Oh, the dilemma!  ‘Cliché’ means that a phrase or idea or opinion – or even a character – is  over-used. We’veContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: THE LOVER OR THE CLICHÉ – Blog # 26        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: STORY SCENE AND SEEN – Blog # 25        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: STORY SCENE AND SEEN – Blog # 25. Can you visualize a scene in your book – is the story scene seen? Are the words forming a scene in your mind – can you see it in your mind? Or do you need to see the scene before you writeContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: STORY SCENE AND SEEN – Blog # 25        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: SPYING – Blog # 24        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: SPYING – Blog # 24. Why is spying an effective inspirational method when writing a book? It provides the fine detail to character development.  In a café, on the street, at a concert … people do stuff, people have habits, people have mannerisms, people have idiosyncrasies. Idiosyncrasies make a characterContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: SPYING – Blog # 24        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: DO I NEED A MENTOR? – Blog # 17        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: DO I NEED A MENTOR – Blog # 17. Do I need a character archetype of the Mentor in my book? As keynote speaker J. Loren Norris said: “If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.” But I ask, who was a foreignerContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: DO I NEED A MENTOR? – Blog # 17        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: FRIENDS AND ALLIES – Blog # 16        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: FRIENDS AND ALLIES – Blog # 16. In my previous blog about my upcoming Paris book, I wrote about the dark side. But, in addition to dark characters, heroes have friends and allies. Or at least one ‘right hand’ person – their ‘ride or die’ – the one that isContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: FRIENDS AND ALLIES – Blog # 16        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: THE DARK SIDE – Blog # 15        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: THE DARK SIDE – Blog # 15. As I write my Paris book I think of plot and character and all things that good novels need. There comes a time to think of the dark side. For me, that time has come.  Almost every novel has a dark side –Continue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: THE DARK SIDE – Blog # 15        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO OR DO WE? – Blog # 14        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO OR DO WE? – Blog # 14. Heroes, heroes, heroes – heroines, heroines, heroines – blah, blah, blah. Martina, people ask me, “We don’t need another hero, or do we?” Admittedly, the people asking the question are my Mad Max fans from Australia. They are quoting fromContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO OR DO WE? – Blog # 14        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: HERO AND VILLAIN – Blog # 13        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: HERO AND VILLAIN – Blog # 13. I’ve talked about the main character in my emerging new Paris Book in terms of being the hero. So, if there is a hero, there must be at least one villain, one archenemy, one rival. Who is the villain in my story? IsContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: HERO AND VILLAIN – Blog # 13        “

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: PROTOTYPE PERSON – Blog # 12        

NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: PROTOTYPE PERSON – Blog # 12. Every novel has one or several main characters. Character development, therefore, needs to begin early and be as detailed as possible. As I write my new fictional Paris book, I think about the process of developing a character. In this case, the new fictionalContinue reading “NEW PARIS BOOK IN PROGRESS IN 2024: PROTOTYPE PERSON – Blog # 12        “