Oh those characters! And Falling Snow on Snow by Lou Sylvre, coming this winter!

Hi everybody! Lou Sylvre here at Love Bytes for my monthly author-post spot, and grateful as always for the opportunity. It’s going to be a short (and sweet?) post this month, because if I get too complicated I’ll be a Read more

Deconstructing Dex – Character Creation

Hello all! Thank you so much for joining me here today at Love Bytes for my monthly author column. Today I’m chatting a little about character development. I love creating characters. It’s one of my favorite parts of writing. As Read more

And the Villainess is…ME

I’m working on a storyline that includes abandonment and indifference towards the main character at the hands of his mother. It can make for great drama in a plot. It can make for authentic and heartrending angst. It can set up any number Read more

I Know Something You Don’t Know

A piece of writing advice you see a lot is to do a character sketch, which is sometimes presented as a questionnaire. You’re meant to write down physical details (yes, do make an easily found note of which side the Read more