Jake's Blog

What is a character profile? A character profile is a gathering of information about a character in your manuscript that ke...

Over the next few months I will be doing a ten part series on characters in writing. Today’s post, part one, will deal with the v...

Writing a novel is a marathon—it’s not something you can bang out in an afternoon or a long weekend. It takes persistence and foc...

I don’t like to lie to people. I also generally don’t like to make people uncomfortable, unless it is productive in some way. I a...