Show of hands, how many of you know what flash fiction is? I’m guessing maybe some of you but probably not a majority. Flash fiction is simply a complete story told in under 1,000 words. That’s usually less than 2 pages guys. Kinda crazy, right? While I haven’t written any flash fiction in a long […]
1 Thing I knew I Needed in a Narrator and 2 Things I Didn’t
When I set out to make my Sewing in SoCal series available in audiobook form, I was looking for one specific thing in a narrator. I needed someone who could bring each of these five unique ladies to life and give them each a unique-sounding voice. I didn’t want any one of them to become […]
Modern Biblical Retellings
Do you have a favorite story in the Bible? How about a favorite fictional retelling of that Bible story? Retellings are a pretty popular trope, although you’ll usually see them as fairy tale retellings. However, within Christian fiction, we have some books that are Bible story retellings. More so in a historical setting (I’m sure […]
Personal Facts in Fiction
Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I was talking to my mom on the phone the other day and she was laughing about telling my brother that I had written him into one of my books. This made me […]
You Had Me at Hello
Let’s talk about the first lines of a book. In the industry, they are called the hook. Probably because, like an angular, the author wants to hook the reader right away and reel them into the story. As a reader, I love a really well-written first line/paragraph. They aren’t make it or break it […]
Identifying with the Sewing in SoCal Characters
Show of hands, who all likes to be able to identify with the main character in a story? *Raises hand* It’s such an important aspect—to be able to feel for and care about the fictional people in the books we read. I don’t mean to say that they have to be exactly like us (which […]
Tropes in Fiction and Real Life
If you’ve been around romance books long enough (and I’m fairly confident we all have!), then you’re familiar with the concept of tropes. This is the literary device authors use as the theme of their romance—the means of which they center their meet-cute all the way to their happily-ever-after around. And, if we’re being honest, […]
Hello, April
April showers bring May flowers. I’m pretty sure we’ve all heard that expression before. Of course, depending on where in the world you live, the saying could be true or false. For instance, there really isn’t a whole lot of rain on the radar here in southern California but when we lived in the Pacific […]
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