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Platform Delving: My Heart Cries Out to Thee!
One of the things I love most about writing romance novels is that I get to reveal and explore parts of my own psyche that I may not have ever touched upon before writing a reaction or thought a chara… more →
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Platform Delving: My Heart Cries Out to Thee!
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Kaye Dacus wrote 1 month ago: One of the things I love most about writing romance novels is that I get to reveal and explore parts … more →
Platform Delving: That's Going in My Next Book!
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: I just spent the last two hours reading this blog post and the 291 comments left there. Let me summa … more →
Platform Delving: Writing What I KNOW
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: A couple of years ago, I was talking with one of my fellow romance writers who also happens to be un … more →
Platform Delving
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Happy National Unmarried and Single Americans Week! What? You mean you’ve never heard of this … more →
Bad Girls: From Vixens to Villains
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: I’m going to use a term today that may offend some of my readers, but as it’s becoming a … more →
Bad Girls: The Scorned Woman
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: “Women do not have any macho tradition to uphold. We are socialized to be nurturing and nice. … more →
Bad Guys---Creepy Cartoon Caricatures
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Maybe I’m aging myself here, but surely most of you can easily recall the ZZ Top song “B … more →
Bad Guys: Is He or Isn't He?
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: A con man stranded on a strange island. A cold-blooded assassin with a memory problem. A vampire in … more →
Bad Guys: What Is Evil?
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: I would imagine that most people reading this blog would answer the titular question by saying that … more →
Bad Guys: Preview of Next Week's Topics
Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: Time, cruel time has once again gotten the better of me today (time has truly been my antagonist thi … more →
Bad Guys: Does a Villain Have to Be Evil?
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: And the winner of the drawing is . . . DEBORAH! She’ll be receiving a signed copy of Stand-In … more →
Bad Guys: Antagonist or Villain?
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Kaye Dacus wrote 2 months ago: If a story has an antagonist, is the antagonist always a “bad guy” or villain? Most of u … more →
Bad Guys: The Allure of the Dark Side
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Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: Imagine you’re sitting in a well-lit room. Sunlight is streaming in through the many, large wi … more →
Bad Guys: Everything I Need to Know about Bad Guys, I Learned in Childhood
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Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: “It’s a fiction writer’s job to remember childhood’s hard lessons about vuln … more →
Bad Guys: Breaking (Down) Bad
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Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: In the lists we came up with yesterday of some of our favorite villainous/antagonistic character, we … more →
Bad Guys: The Villains and Antagonists We Love to Hate
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Kaye Dacus wrote 3 months ago: It’s about time for a new series, yes? One of the series I’ve been wanting to do since r … more →
Make POV Work for You: Mixed Point of View
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Kaye Dacus wrote 6 months ago: One of the books on my reading list this year is Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. I thought I … more →
Make POV Work for You: Writing the Male POV
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Kaye Dacus wrote 6 months ago: This has to be one of the most popular topics amongst female authors at any conference out there. An … more →
Make POV Work for You: Show Don't Tell (Part 2)
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Kaye Dacus wrote 6 months ago: Okay, one more contest judging anecdote. I’m currently judging entries in a first-three-pages … more →
