What Kinda Crazy Idea Is That?

This week at Star-Crossed, we're blogging about the science in our stories. Every science fiction or speculative fiction story must, by...

Will All the Techies Please Stand Up?

TAKE ME IN YOUR HEART was the first novel where I tried my hand at being a mad scientist. In fact, I created a scientist, who embodied a per...

The Market for SFR

Since I mostly write SFR (science fiction romance) the science in my stories is very important. Not that I dump vast quantities of science f...

A Few Tips On Writing That I Use

So many here have already written about characters, and I reckon in the past I've warbled on enough about what I like to see in my chara...

The Right Blend

And no, I'm not talking about coffee beans. I wish I were. I love coffee. What I'm talking about is the blend between romantic sto...

Guest Blogger - Linda Wisdom

Good morning everyone!This week we've got my friend, a lovely lady and a fantastic writer, guesting with us. Her book, 50 WAYS TO HEX YO...

Cool Characters Transform

I’m most definitely one of those people that likes to sport one-liner t-shirts. You know the kind—I’ve Misplaced My Mind, That’s My Story an...

Torturing the truth out of the character

I’m always in the market for a new way or an improved way to create characters. I love seeing all these tips this week (and I’m making notes...

Tip Sheets

Up until a few months ago, I really didn’t give character creation much thought. [That sounds bad, I know] but my characters seemed to just ...

Who In The World?!

How do I create characters? Gee, I really don't know. They come to me in different ways. Sometimes it starts with a name, other times a ...

Voices In My Head

One of the most fundamental aspects of crafting a story is who tells it in the first place. Or rather, who the story is about. They say th...

Engage Me Already!

That title’s not a typo. After I posted for Valentine’s Day I realized the second connotation when talking about books. “Engage me already,”...

Writing encouragement

Hemingway said -- Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Of course, things were a little different back then. Communication with other writ...