When a character loves another but doesn’t like them
Whether it’s friends, family members or romantic partners, at some point in our lives we have to navigate relationships with people who we love but don’t like very much.
How can you research characters if they doesn’t exist?
One of the hardest parts of writing characters is getting the balance right. It’s indisputable that anyone who creates a…
Stories of New York
New York is amazing, and has so much personality and so many layers, and so many different atmospheres. I love the energy of the city, and how it can change from block to block.
Writing: How to decide on the story I want to tell
I’m midway through the third draft of what I hope to share either later this year or early next and the story continues to twist and turn and bend into all kinds of new shapes.
Everybody loves an unreliable narrator … don’t they?
I’ve had an unreliable washing machine, an unreliable car, and worst of all roller-coaster results from a not entirely trustworthy recipe for spaghetti carbonara. And yet I persist. It’s the same with an unreliable narrator. Make the people who live on your pages too predictably perfect, and nobody will care.