Nine more days to go before completing the 30 day writing blog. I wish to have taken you all through a step-by-step process of writing your book, but somethings need more time and quite more details to be fully understood. With my full schedule, what I have offered are some significant writing tips to make anyone's writing better. By using these tips, your writing will become stronger and your reader engagement, if the tips are executed well, should increase by a large margin

I added this picture because it looks like I'm laughing. Writing is fun. I hope you have as much fun writing as I do. I’m not sure if other writers are like me, but I suspect they are, especially if they’re pantsers. I can’t count how many times I mentioned listening to the voices when I write a story. I think I’ve told you more than once that the voices are always telling me things. While I’m writing, I can also see the scene unfolding. There’s so much happening in my brain

I’m at the part of my story where the pace of the book automatically goes faster. In the middle of a book, going forward to the end, the pace of a book will increase. The dilemma that’s mentioned in the beginning of my novel has been given, then fleshed out so any reader has a firm understanding of what’s happening, but I have to write those chapters in a way that although they understand what’s going on, they’re unsure of what will actually happen next. My characters, at thi

When an author writes, sometimes it’s good to leave their own personality on the shelf. People are creatures of habit. Some of the things we do, we aren’t conscientious of it because we do it so often. This sometimes shows in our writing. But a good author can spot when this happens and rewrite what they need to so their personality isn’t on the page. The reason we have to do this is because all of the characters we write about can’t sound like us and have our traits. Our cha

There is a science to writing. Since I started this blog, I often mention how I listen to the voices. The voices are the characters in my story, telling me what is happening to them, how they feel and what they plan on doing. The voices only play a part in my writing process. With every chapter I write, I must include certain elements to create a bestseller worthy novel. I mentioned before and I’ll mention again that writing a story is more than just telling what a character

More than once, you’ll see I have written that one thing or another weighs strongly when writing a book. Here’s another one. Conflict is everything. In every bestselling book, the conflict mentioned on the pages keeps a reader reading. And that’s what we want to do: keep readers reading. Because think about it. Why write something no one wants to read? There are four types of conflict that’s usually seen in books: man versus man, man versus self, man versus society and man ve

You’ve written pages and you can see the story you’re writing clearly in your mind, but can’t figure out how to get it on paper. This is my first time blogging about my writing process. Now, when I look back over the posts, I think I have taken a lot of what I normally do for granted, especially for anyone that's reading this blog and hasn’t written before nor is sure on how to start a manuscript and finish it. Today’s post is inspired by a friend of mind. This friend is an a

What happens when you reach a part of your book and don’t know what should happen next? I’m going to be honest with you. This doesn’t happen to me a lot and when it does, from experience I know if I go back a chapter, I usually find the problem and I’m ready to move on. But because this can be a problem that many writers face, I thought what a good way to tell my process of what to do when this happens. To that, let me explain what happened this morning. I opened my manuscrip

During a typical day, I write for about 6-11 hours. You might think that’s extreme, but you must consider that I’m a full-time author. I don’t have an outside job. My job is writing and I love my job. Today, I want to discuss a part of my process that I think can help a lot of new writers or writers who are still learning their craft. What I want to discuss is how you read what you have written versus how a reader reads what's on the page. My first book was published in 2013

When bad things happen to a character, a story gets more interesting. The bad doesn’t have to keep coming and coming. It can be one bad problem that gets worse as time goes on. It can be a chain reaction type of deal. One problem that the character is trying to solve, but every measure they take sinks them deeper into their dilemma. My problem is I love making more bad things happen. I love putting my main characters through the wringer. I think readers of my books enjoy that