Fae Rowen shares four critical areas that help guide readers, and your characters, through the story: motivation, backstory, conflict and character arc.

Fae Rowen I've been writing for twenty-five years. I started when an English-teacher friend suggested I write down the story that I thought about every night before I fell asleep. As a math teacher, I had no intention of writing a book, but I'd finished my first one, a medieval kind-of-fantasy-for-sure romance in only nine […]

by Fae Rowen Because I've got the October 2 blog date, I get to say Happy Birthday to my mother here. Happy Birthday, Mom! Thanks for indulging me. And for finding today's target word twice in the first sentence. "Get" and it's multi-tense derivative "got" could be nominated for one of the words everyone, not […]

Fae Rowen I promise this is the last in what was never intended to become a series. But it seems every time I think of "F" words, more come to mind... My blog with the first six words can be found here. Like the first six words, these F-words are perfectly "clean" for mixed company […]

by Fae Rowen Years ago, when I attended the UCI Summer Writing Institute, I learned about golden lines. These are the lines you go back and highlight after taking notes in a class or workshop or in a great book. These are the takeaway ideas, the ones you want to remember and implement in your […]