Recent content by Naomi Rey

I need likeminded brains with whom I can bounce around ideas and questions. I'm almost finished with my first draft (70k words in) and I'm getting ideas of what needs to be worked on during the revision stage. It's the Iron Age... the concept "proof" is not what it is during the twenty-first...

I woke up to a wrinkle in my story today. At some point in the story, my MC goes from fighting for all to bowing out to protect her family. It's been a part of my story since the beginning, I knew it was coming. But when I actually wrote it, it feels like the MC is reversing so much on who...

Often said is the idea that every C must have a motive. "Write it down at the bottom corner of the page," they say. It's that important. Now, I have never gotten anything out of writing it in the margins. However, I do think that motivation is important for the SC as well as the MC. The SC...