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The main characters of this fiction, westerns story are Mattie Ross, Tom Chaney. The book has been awarded with , and many others. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. I spent hours finding a diagram of an appropriate yacht, pictures, looking up accounts of trips, badgering my endlessly patient sailor brother-in-law to make it make sense to me sorry again, JP , and generally making the steam yacht a real solid moving thing in my head.
I say top because it was there, just not visible. Research informs your writing, and it shows through the text like a backlight. Or you may need option 2. If you need your MCs to be in rather than get to Berlin, put them in Berlin. Paragraphs of detail about how they get there are not going to grab anyone at all: the only reason we care is if something interesting happens on the journey.
Research it or fudge it. So far, so obvious. However, because writing books is always more complicated than that, we need to throw something else into the mix. Follow some more authors on Twitter and set a timer for this one:. Thank you subconscious! WritingGods Blessed. My hero in Doomsday Book 1 has just moved to Romney Marsh, an isolated and sparsely populated area.
The naturalist thing is now not just a detail. I cannot overstate how much this decision unlocked for me. I used it because it was there. It was there because I put it there. Why did I put it there? No idea. Because maybe if you actually looked into getting there, it might turn out there was a night train perfect for sex, espionage, murder, or all of the above.
Which sounds great. But let us just refer back to the first tweet, and the hours of research that went absolutely nowhere or led to irrelevant detail that got binned in the second draft…. I was going through the MS the other day, and I came across a single line that needed filling in. However, book 2 is all about the sprawling, weird, Gothic, and possibly homicidal Bloggs family. I know this much, but have I done the family tree and synopsis?
Have I hell. I might very well need him to have a very different position in the family—married in, say, or not in the line of inheritance at all. And the stakes are high with linked books. This is why they say the devil is in the detail. In this case, I can leave him as the brother, and have that as a fixed point, which might well act as a spur for me to develop the plot. I can sit down and work out the family tree and the synopsis of book 2 now but see above for me and synopses. Or I can fudge it:.
Two days later, he was in Berlin…. Going for the fudge is the right thing in this instance, probably. And the fudge will cover, I think, more or less any choice I make. I think. You could say much the same of research. I wish I could tell you how to distinguish between the throwaway detail that will become the solution to all your plot woes, the throwaway detail that helps anchor the book in reality, and the throwaway detail you throw away.
However, there is a lot of misunderstanding about what conflict is and means. The word evokes big rows, enemies to lovers, prickling hostility.
Prickling hostility can be great. It is perfectly possible to write a terrific romance where the MCs never clash with one another, even in a small way. Where they struggle and how they deal with it is the engine that drives the plot, shows character in action, and lets the relationship develop. What are the obstacles, internal and external, that complicate, slow, or threaten the relationship?
Overloading a book with conflict, or not dealing with it once raised, can make that hard to believe. We often think of conflict at plot level. MC1 is a policeman and 2 is an assassin, or a thief, or an activist who believes that the justice system is fascist and corrupt. MC1 is a princess, a werewolf, the boss, or all three which would be cool.
You know the score. Power imbalance is a big one. Obvious areas for power imbalance are gender-related including in queer relationships , and disparities in wealth, health, professional status, class, sexual experience, age, perceived attractiveness, perceived value as a person. Differing moral standards can be a massive obstacle. For how long?
About what issues? How far does family matter? If duties clash—family, career, partner—which do you prioritise?
Did one MC do things which the other considers objectively bad? Which is more important, personal fulfilment or personal responsibility?
We all know the relatively trivial issues on which relationships stub their toes occasionally. If it matters to the character, it should matter to the reader. Important : Characters can have serious issues without them being obstacles to the relationship. Both those things help define the relationship. A few of those, and how they react:. All these issues and more come up across the series, some as ongoing across the three books, some once, some intermittently.
The progress of the relationship is shown in the way they handle, listen, accept, put down boundaries, change.
Note: I could have done all this differently. I could have had the wealth disparity be a running sore between them. I could have made Will unconcerned by class, or Kim far more concerned by it. And so on. All of those decisions could have worked. All of them would have led to the characters developing and reacting differently. Let me add: I struggled with book 3, Subtle Blood as chronicled here. Once I delved into that, and realised it was standing in the way of the deep emotional commitment we needed, the book came together.
I know book 1 is going to star Joss Doomsday smuggler and Gareth Inglis gentleman. Is Gareth OK with that? If no , is this a moral difference, to be discussed as part of a growing mutual understanding between two people of different backgrounds? Or is it adversarial? Is Gareth is a magistrate on a personal crusade to stamp out smuggling, who fully intends to see Joss hang?
You can probably think of half a dozen different ways this book might go, based on that single potential obstacle. We could be looking at anything from a frothy caper comedy to a raging angst-fest here, depending on how I answer the question. Character creates obstacles; obstacles drive the plot.
After much agonising, indecision, rewriting, and, frankly, fannying around see last post I am pleased to report that Subtle Blood is out. At last. Words are often like that. Short story showing a turning point, available through my newsletter. Subtle Blood is one of the best books that KJ Charles has ever written. Every word, every twisting twist of the plot, every interaction between its characters, it has been magnificent.
Book Me Up! A sexy, elegant and romantic murder mystery. Maya Rodale, NPR. This was the perfect way to end this series. Smexy Books. May Peterson, author of The Sacred Dark trilogy. Subtle Blood buy links. Warning: epic length. I wrote book 1, set the self publishing in motion, started work on book 2, and—oops! I got book 1 out. I even managed to finish book 2, though I had to delay publication by two months. Twitter was full of writers screaming that their average writing speed had dropped to twelve words an hour, that their characters had become plastic mannequins, plots withered on the vine, inspiration turned to dust.
The only creative boom was in people writing articles about how the pandemic was destroying creativity. I created the Subtle Blood Scrivener folder in July By January I had four folders of false starts for the damn thing, none of which were going anywhere. That book was a doddle.
Over, and over, and over. None of my multiple versions got past chapter 7. Every word I wrote, every path I took, immediately seemed worse than all the other possible ones, like the supermarket trolley queue choice from hell. I wrote and rewrote and flailed. I had to write the book. Readers had bought the first two of the series on the promise that Kim and Will would get their HEA in book 3, and in the romance world, that promise is the kind you sign in your own blood at a crossroads at midnight.
That was the big one. I knew what the romance arc would be, that was easy. But I could not work out how the suspense plot should develop. Every time I tried to write it, it fell apart in my hands like too-short pastry. To convey how bad this got: I wrote the first five chapters three times over with the same character as, respectively, the murderer, the victim, and the key witness. I tried, I really did.
Clearly I needed to sit down and plan the bastard. The idea is that the visual change makes your brain see the text as new and therefore pick up errors you previously skimmed over. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to romance, historical lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Charles Free Download pages Author K. Charles Submitted by: Jane Kivik.
He took a moment to work out where he was, and several more to decide if last night had in fact happened. No, that had definitely not been the case, he decided, after a frantic check of his memories. Today would almost certainly be a field of mantraps. He washed and dressed, taking care because today, like every day since the murder, might be his last day of freedom.
He emerged into the main room of the suite, and was relieved to see Susan.
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