Writing Tips/Writer's Dozen Topics
- Getting to know your characters: 12 tips (posted June 2009)
- 12 Tips For Creating Stronger Chemistry (posted February 2005)
- 12 Ways to Add Depth to Your Characters (posted April 2005)
- 12 Ways to Get to Know Your Character Better (posted January 2006)
- A Baker's Dozen: Reasons Your Character Might Have a Tattoo (posted October 2006)
- Character Archetypes (posted March 2007)
- 12 professions you shouldn't use for your character (posted April 2007)
- Top Twelve Reasons to Love a Dark Hero (posted May 2007)
- 12 Professions for Your Female Character (posted September 2008)
- 12 Characteristics of Unlikable Characters (posted October 2008)
- 12 Ways to
Reveal Character Without Dialogue (posted April 2009)
Conflict
- A Baker's Dozen for Structuring Conflict (posted May 2005)
- 12
Questions to Test Your Story's Emotion Quotient (posted July 2005)
Craft
- 12 + 1 Verbs to Consider (posted May 2006)
- 12 Quick Tips to Add Strength and Spice to Your Writing (posted June 2006)
- Two Dozen Questions to Ask Yourself When Doing Your First Rewrite (posted December 2007)
- 1/2 Dozen Ways
to Show Not Tell and a Dozen Examples (posted June 2008)
Plot
- 12 Bizarre Ways to
Kill Off Your Characters (posted January 2009)
Point of View
- 12
Basics for Point of View Purists-and for Those Who Aren't So Pure
(posted December 2004)
Resources and References
- 12+ Writing Resources and References You Should Read (posted November 2004)
- 12 Favourite First Lines (posted January 2005)
- 12 Common Grammatical Mistakes (posted March 2005)
- 12 Great Romances (posted April 2006)
- 12 Common Punctuation Mistakes (posted November 2006)
- 12 Tips for Writers
who use Microsoft Word (posted March 2008)
Miscellaneous
- 12 Ways to 'Plot' Your Year (posted September 2005)
- 12 Reasons I Belong to ARWA (posted November 2005)
- Ways to Read a Book (things to look for when trying to learn from other people's writing) (posted December 2005)
- 12 Things We Can Learn from Romance Movies (posted February 2006)
- 12 Reasons to be Proud to be a Romance Writer (posted March 2006)
- 12 Design Principles for Writers (posted September 2006)
- 12 Gift Ideas for Writers (posted December 2006)
- A Baker's Dozen of Replacements for the clichés "Dead as a doornail" and "Dead as the dodo" (posted January 2007)
- 12 Things About Love From Movies or T.V. (posted February 2007)
- 13 Reasons why you should abandon you current manuscript (posted June 2007)
- Stick-To-Itiveness: Creative Ways to Keep Your Butt in the Writing Chair! (posted September 2007)
- From Beginning to End: 12 steps to completing your book (posted October 2007)
- Twelve Ways to Get Going (posted November 2007)
- 2 x 12 Signs You Are a Writer (posted January/February 2008)
- 12 Inspiring Quotes from Best-Selling Authors (posted April 2008)
- 12 Ways to Develop Your Career (posted May 2008)
- 12 Places to Look for Story Ideas (posted February 2009)
- 12 Ways to Title Your Book (posted March 2009)