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Kay: Stuck

I’ve been thinking about a scene I wrote recently. In my draft, my protagonist/heroine took an action (she paid an invoice) that resolved a conflict she’d had with the romantic hero. When I was done...

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Jeanne: Teaching Conflict

Hi everyone, I’m taking a much-needed post-conference-and-contest break with the family this week, so Jeanne Estridge has graciously agreed to take over today’s post. Thank you Jeanne! I’ll be back...

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Michille: My Final Project – Conflict

  When I enrolled in the McDaniel Romance Writing post-graduate certificate program, I also enrolled in the Masters of Liberal Arts program. With five courses in the certificate program and two more...

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Elizabeth: What Hockey Taught me about Story

Conflict in action Last night, while watching my local hockey team battling for a play-off win that would allow them to advance to the next level of competition, I couldn’t help but see correlations...

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Elizabeth: Activate your Antagonist

A rendering of an archetype of a villainWith permission from Wikipedia Commons While going through my email this morning, I came across this post from the delightful Ainsley Brooks, author of The Star...

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Jilly: Would You Let This Woman Invade Your Story?

Do you enjoy strong secondary characters in romance novels, or do they distract you from the love story between the hero and heroine? I reported last week that the most thought-provoking feedback I got...

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Michaeline: Creative Fuel for the Writing Workhorse

I usually start with a protagonist. Then, I’ve got to find a conflict and an anagonist for her. (Published by Currier and Ives, New York, 1874, via Wikimedia Commons) This blog post was inspired by a...

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Justine: The Train Wreck in the Middle…But at the Beginning

From “The Lone Ranger” © 2013 – Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Jerry Bruckheimer Inc. All Rights Reserved. Yesterday, Nancy posted about going back to the beginning (of what we learned at McDaniel) to...

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Justine: Throwing a Rock

Back in the McDaniel days, Jenny Cruise once told us a story about a book she was writing that wasn’t working. She had her friend Lani Diane Rich read it, who said the main character, Liz, just...

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Jeanne: Layering Motivation

The best single workshop I attended at RWA 2014 was on character motivation by New York Times best-selling author Madeline Hunter. According to Madeline, you can escalate the tension in your novel...

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Kay: Getting Rid of Helga

I’ve been revising my WIP for some weeks now, incorporating the comments I’ve gotten from my critique partners and the other Ladies. It’s been going fairly well, all things considered. I have a lot of...

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Michaeline: Hocus Pocus

Zan Zig, magician, has a lot of flash and creativity and color going on, but lacks something in the structure departure. Does it matter? It’s still beautiful. And yet . . . . (Via Wikimedia Commons)...

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Justine: The GMC, Ma’am, Just the GMC

So I’ve been in judging hell this week. Last week, I’d spent a bunch of time totaling scores for the contest I’ve been managing…this past week, I’ve been reading paranormal entries for the 2015 Golden...

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Michille: Favorite Characters

One of the reasons that I like reading and writing romance is the character-driven nature of the stories. I like character arc. One of the reasons that I don’t usual watch TV series is the lack of...

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Justine: Conflict. Wait…What?

Trouble is coming. Or is it conflict?Image (c) 1950 Disney Animation Studios. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last week reading through the second half of Three Proposals (and highlighting á la Margie...

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Justine: Fiction Fundamentals, Part 3: Conflict (First Installment)

Welcome to Part 3 of Fiction Fundamentals. In Part 1, I discussed character goals. Last time, in Part 2, I covered a character’s Motivation…the “why” of what they want to do in your story. This...

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Justine: Fiction Fundamentals…Writing Great Characters

Welcome to Part 3 of Fiction Fundamentals. When I approached the topic of writing great characters, I didn’t realize how much information you, New Writer, should know about what really makes them...

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Michaeline: How to Start a Story

  Make it at home! Or make it on a train! Or on a space ship! (Image via Wikimedia Commons) Usually for me, I start with a character, and usually, the character brings a setting along naturally. Rachel...

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