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Today I'm talking about my favorite show, ever, in the history of shows, and there are a lot of great TV shows out there but this one is special, to me, and about a billion others.
Yes, I'm talking about FRIENDS
Why did it work so well?
Why do we still love...
This week I'm talking about characters in comedy, specifically romantic comedies. What I am seeing in a lot of work that is coming in is the stereotypes of the snarky leading lady-who honestly, no one, not even our leading man, would like because she's too awful, and the womanizer leading man-who...
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This week, I'm breaking down a popular romantic comedy from twenty years ago that nails it when it comes to story structure! LEGALLY BLONDE
How Legally Blonde Does it Perfectly!
When this film came out I lived with a roommate, whom I'm still friends with so I mean...
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Happy Thursday. This week I'm talking about when you get that dreaded feedback that goes something like "I couldn't connect with the characters" or "she/he wasn't believable" or "I just didn't care." And, there's more too but you get the point.
Your story is fine, but...
This week I've been focusing on how to get you noticed when you are submitting your query letters and my new course on writing the perfect pitch is open now!
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But, the truth is if you don't have killer opening pages...
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Happy Wednesday and first of all let me apologize for not getting my blog posted last week.
Life happened and I got behind which has inspired me to write today about what that can do to your writing goals and how to reset and push past it!!
So, you have a plan...
Hello Dear Writers!!
Today, I'm talking about CHARACTER.
The concept is simple. You write a story and it's filled with characters. Maybe you have one or two leads and then some sidekicks and potential villains but you know that you need characters.
Sadly at the character level...
Happy Wednesday, Writers!
Rejection sucks doesn't it? And yet, we all go through it, but so many times I see writers posting on forums, in social media groups, or clients of mine, talking about how they have no idea WHY they are getting rejected, especially after putting in so much...
It's Writer Wednesday and today I'm talking about writing the perfect VILLAIN!
Snidely Whiplash, an archetypical sinister cartoon villain
I love me some villains, well the good ones, the well written, well thought out villains who are bad for a reason. Now, that reason probably...
Good morning dear writers!
You have finished the new novel that you wrote in November for National Novel Writing Month--AKA: NaNoWriMo and now what?
Many new writers go immediately to submitting query letters to agents and or tossing it up on Amazon via self-publishing. Here is why I...
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