“I cannot do otherwise, here I stand, may God help me, amen.” Martin Luther said these words when on trial before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, refusing to go against his conscience and recant his…
Reaping Reputations
You sit at your computer, ready to click the awe-inspiring SUBMIT button that will put your manuscript before the eyes of an agent or editor. It’s exciting, relieving, an ‘at last’ moment. And you are…
A Mind of Their Own
Have you ever had a character do or say something you didn’t expect? You knew where the scene was going, but suddenly it twisted as you wrote? I have. In one scene in my novel,…
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Have you ever read one of those books where the main character is just too close to perfect? I have, and though the storyline may be good, it just doesn’t sit well with me. And…