Character Development

· Characters (posted 2003-2004)

· 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)

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)

Plot

· Plot Structure (posted 2003-2004)

· Plot Devices (posted 2003-2004)

· Plotting (posted 2003-2004)

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)

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