The process of creating interesting and memorable characters whose fate readers can develop a stake in is just that: a process, not an event. You want readers to get to know your characters the way they get to know people in real life—a little at a time. So in the first five pages, writers should […]
The most common mistake we find writers making, albeit with the best of intentions, is to open their novels with some kind of information—exposition—rather than with a scene, something that happens. (Or by pulling the reader’s attention from an opening scene to explain it in some fashion.)
This is often deliberate, the idea […]
The motor for this novel is Gina’s desire for God, yearning for intimacy with God, and longing for a sign. Yet this wonderfully forthright, up-front, articulate character who in her first breath as a character is praying doesn’t seem to have any clear notion of what kind of sign from God […]
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Some projects may be only a draft away from completion; others may have even more potential but need considerably more work. One function of our Manuscript Critique services is […]