This was a question a good writer asked me in a creative writing class. He said he knew everything about the book he had planned — and he could certainly put sentences together well — but he didn’t know why his bad guy was bad.…
Tag: the writing process
So I’m revising EEL’S REVERENCE, a kind of science fantasy (I guess), which has mermaids (mermayds) as natural beings rather than supernatural ones. Why do I have to revise it? Failure of imagination. You would think that a book with mermayds and female priests had…
SCORE! Robert and Darrin McGraw, authors of the Best. Book. Ever., have sent me a guest post about creating quirky characters.