Edit Your Novel Checklist: First Read, No Edits
Edit Your Novel Checklist: First Read, No Edits *** “Read through the checklist, put it in your mind, and let it just float there. Don’t be so restrictive about it. You can always revisit...
Edit Your Novel Checklist: First Read, No Edits *** “Read through the checklist, put it in your mind, and let it just float there. Don’t be so restrictive about it. You can always revisit...
Welcome to Tinthia Clemant’s third post in her three-part series on Goal, Motivation, , and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing. This one focuses on your character’s and story’s conflict.
Welcome to Tinthia Clemant’s second post in her three-part series on Goal, Motivation, and Conflict — The ABCs of Writing. This one focuses on your character’s motivation.
Goals versus Desires – Wanting something is a desire; working to obtain that something is the goal.
“Trevor’s only wanted to raise her girls and fight for her community nursing program. She didn’t have time to be distracted by the hot fireman she burned years ago by refusing his marriage proposal. If she could just remind herself of her desires each day, it wouldn’t be so hard working closely with him to help his father recover from a stroke.” Take Harte a novel by Carol Malone.
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