11 Ideas to Write Yourself Away From the Cliff’s Edge
When you’ve written tension into your novel so well, you don’t even know what is going to happen next, how do you write yourself out of that corner? Here are 11 tips to get you writing again.
Create Tension in your novel 8 ways
When I was writing my first middle grade novel, I provided a myriad of helpful objects to help my main character achieve his end goal….
Dealing with Rejection: How to fall and hop right back up
Dealing with rejections: 5 ways to pick yourself up off of the ice.
3 Tips to Handle Critiques and Rejections (+ How to Benefit From Them)
Learn how to handle critiques and rejections with the elegance and decorum of a three-headed dog. I wish I could tell you that the writing…
How to Write Romance: #4 Soulmate or Fated Lovers Trope
How to Write a Romance: The Soulmate or Fated Lovers Romance Trope. Welcome to Vanilla Grass’s romance How to Write a Romance Series! This week’s…
How to Write a Romance: #3 Friends to Lovers Trope
Welcome to Vanilla Grass’s romance How to Write a Romance Series! This week’s focus? The popular friends to lovers trope. Carolyn is a successful ghostwriter…
How to Write a Romance Series: 47 Most Popular Romance Genres & 29 Romance Tropes
Welcome to Vanilla Grass’s romance How to Write a Romance Series! This week’s focus? Romance Genres & Sub-Genres and Romance Tropes. Carolyn is a successful…
How to Write a Romance Novel Series – #1 Romance Steam Levels
Welcome to Vanilla Grass’s romance How to Write a Romance Series! This week’s focus? Understanding Romance Steam Levels. Carolyn is a successful ghostwriter for published…
Quick Writing Tips (#11 – Don’t Start With Backstory)
“Don’t start with backstory! Your readers will lose interest before you’ve even begun,” is arguably the most common feedback I hear for first chapters. And…
Quick Writing Tips for Writers (#10 – Vary Sentence Length)
Quick Writing Tip For Writers: The best writers understand flow. What I mean is, their prose follow a natural cadence that favors both long and…