If you have multiple main characters, with different Lies and Needs (I'm referring to K.M. Weiland's definition of the Lie and the Need for...
I've had these same feelings. It's hard not to hate yourself for wanting to repay the world with hate. You know you shouldn't, because you're a...
This is one that I use a lot - http://www.behindthename.com/names/list
Lea, I think it's time you looked at divorce lawyers. My girlfriend was out of the country and out of contact for a day or two less than you and...
Brandon Sanderson is an absolute favorite of mine. His baby was Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive) which was over 1,000 pages. The sequel is...
I'd like to recommend another option: What if he goes MIA? Possibly captured, possibly killed... your MC wouldn't know what happened. He'd begin...
Great! Now I do too!
In a way. The MC's mother works really hard, but she's not motivated out of maternal compassion or wanting to provide for her children, it's for...
@Link the Writer it sounds possible. Especially if you're really relating to people and internalizing their stresses. Maybe the support group's...
Wow! That is fantastic advice, thanks Megs!! I will definitely use that. I was going to go with a slight twist on his backstory: He's actually...
Yeah, I'm struggling quite a bit with that. I've found that most criminals are actually moody teenagers in adult bodies. I work in adult...
Ah! Thank you so much! So it's only one sentence? The example he gives in the book (about the kid in the wheelchair) is like a paragraph long.
Separate names with a comma.
