5 Ways To Fine Tune Character Voice

5 Ways To Fine Tune Character Voice

How do you give your characters a distinct, unmistakable voice? What people say and how they say it is a big part of character development. And each character has a unique way of speaking and interacting. In this episode, we’re going over 5 ways to bring your...
4  Levels To Deeper Character Development

4 Levels To Deeper Character Development

How do you move beneath the surface of your characters to make them multi-dimensional and complex like real human beings? Just like their real-life counterparts, it takes time to really know our characters. To access those complex interior layers. So much of us...
4 Ways To Give Your Voice Presence And Purpose

4 Ways To Give Your Voice Presence And Purpose

What exactly is writer’s voice? How do you access and strengthen yours, and how do you express it on the page? In this episode, I’ll give you 4 ways to give your voice more presence and purpose in your stories. We’ll talk about what we mean by writer’s voice,...
How To Get Better Feedback From Beta Readers

How To Get Better Feedback From Beta Readers

You’ve just finished the first draft of your novel, memoir or short story, and now you’re looking for beta readers to test whether your story’s working or not. But how do you find them? What should you look for? What should you avoid? And what are some...
Your Summer Writing Playlist

Your Summer Writing Playlist

Now that it’s officially summertime here in the Catskills, and life is slowing down at least for a bit. And since Writer Unleashed is approaching it’s 3rd Birthday,   this is usually the time I do a little retrospective on past episodes. I’ve curated...
4 Guidelines For Writing Dazzling Description

4 Guidelines For Writing Dazzling Description

Description can bring layers of atmosphere and authenticity that drops the reader fully inside the world of your story. But sometimes writers assume that the only way to create a world for the reader to inhabit is to include loads of detail. But too much description...

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