Deborah Sutton

Storytelling - Is Your Approach Stalling Your Fiction?

The characters we're writing about sometimes don't behave as we expect. It's almost as if they have a life of their own and are trying to tell us that we're forcing them in the wrong direction. That we are, in short, asking them to behave 'out of characte... Read >

10 Tips for Creating Memorable Characters

Readers demand living, breathing, suffering characters. If you can't create characters that grab the reader by the scruff of the neck and make them sit up and take notice, you might as well not write the story. That may seem like a harsh thing to ... Read >

Fearless Interviewing for Writers

One of the most terrifying words in a beginning-writer's vocabulary, and one that's responsible for striking fear into many a learner-writer's heart is' interview. We need expert quotes for our articles, we're told. And how do we get them? By going out... Read >