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Tweaking the Premise of My Book

Tweaking the Premise of My Book

For the last three weeks, I’ve been working on how to improve my Protagonist’s character arc. After talking to my editor, I went back into my WIP and tried to track her arc. I realized my MC remained fairly static. Ruh roh. So I decided to research...
THE END Is Near

THE END Is Near

I’m near the end of my manuscript…again. Several years ago, I completed the original manuscript, work-shopped it at a conference, revised it with two other writers, and started the query process to find an agent. So this is the second time I’ve...

Wednesday’s Words from Faith Can Move Mountains In this excerpt Faith is waiting for the sun to rise before she goes to Charleston to see Josiah Hamilton about mining phosphate at River Oaks. “The sky and the river shone quicksilver in the twilight, the...

Real life vs. Social Media

For awhile now, I’ve been contemplating giving up Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, or at least curtailing the time I spend on it. I started participating in these platforms because I wanted to stay in touch with friends, and I’ve done that....

Coffee Mess

#1LineWednesday #FaithCanMoveMountains Marshall Lindsay is the antagonist in my novel, Faith Can Move Mountains. He enters the book on the first page, in the first line. He disrupts Faith’s world and resurfaces as an unwelcome and dangerous presence in...