DAN ALATORRE

A few ideas on character arcs  

If you got an email last night (check your spam folder) you know we are finally ready to start the Soul Mates story. Probably. There were a few false starts and a vacation AND a computer crash, among other things. School started. There may have been a flood. Famine. Locusts… Soul Mates is the working title […]

On occasion I get letters from readers (or I just make one up) asking for writing advice, needing suggestions about their work, requests for money… I’m happy to answer these fans, and since what they want to know is usually something others might need to know, I share the letters here. (Names withheld to protect […]

My friend D G Kaye wrote about this topic regarding what the dying want to tell us about living, gleaned from her own experiences and validated by a something she read. I was captured by a few paragraphs in the post she linked to.   Well, I was captured by the whole article… but these were the […]

Yes, it’s time to start doing our Friday writing challenges again! Today’s is simple because I know you’re rusty.   Complete the following sentence. The most important thing about writing a book is… That’s it. That’s the challenge. That might be harder than it looks, but there probably are no wrong answers. So, now that you […]

Yep. I added a page for all these videos we’ve been doing. Check it out HERE (or on the tab above)  

This post was originally a guest blog post on happy meerkat’s page, and I’ve shared it from there. No, wait. Meerkat was the guest at Eternal Scribbler’s blog. I think. Anyway, it’s good info you need, people! . Being a book reviewer is something far more rewarding than I ever imagined.  Being able to read […]

This post originally appeared on happymeerkatreviews ; (emphasis added by me). . Here’s the second Respect the Reviewer article I’ve written (the first can be read here). This is for all authors out there.  While some tips might be obvious others you may not have thought of, either way I hope some of these tips will help you find […]

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