Writers In The Storm welcomes back award-winning author and RWA RITA-nominee, Shannon Donnelly. Today she’s talking to us about the difference between dialog that is -- mediocre, and dialog that *sparkles* By Shannon Donnelly TECHNICAL CHALLENGE: DIALOGUE When I first began writing, one thing stood out like a big old red light—in any story, there’s […]

Writers In The Storm welcomes back award-winning author and RWA RITA-nominee, Shannon Donnelly. Last month she discussed 5 Quick Fixes To Make Readers Love Your Villains. This month's post is more philosophical. We'll be interested to hear your answer to the title question down in the comments! ******************** Money ~ by Shannon Donnelly The old joke […]

Writers In The Storm welcomes back award-winning author and RWA RITA-nominee, Shannon Donnelly. Today she’s talking to us about villains we love to hate and how to keep them from becoming a cardboard stereotype whose every action is predictable and boring. By Shannon Donnelly Nothing marks a writer as a beginner as clearly as the […]

Thank-you to Shannon Donnelly for supplying a "handout" to a workshop I was looking forward to - SUBTEXT.  We are truly fortunately at Writers in the Storm to have Shannon as a contributing blogger the first Monday on every month. by Shannon Donnelly There was supposed to be a workshop on this at RWA national […]

Welcome to the first Monday of the month, when we are lucky to share in the wisdom of contributing blogger Shannon Donnelly. Her post today will help get you writing this summer, despite your fears. by Shannon Donnelly "I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. . . . Good writing […]