Arlene Hittle

Tag: characters

  • Right direction

    My instincts are right on track. At least that’s the gist of the feedback from fellow NARWAn Kelly, the first person (besides myself) to read through the entire first draft of “Blind Date Bride.” All 330+ pages of it. (And it took her less than a week!) 😀 She loved the hero and heroine, Damien […]

  • The what, the why & the why not

    I spent some time this weekend looking through Debra Dixon’s infamous “Goal, Motivation and Conflict,” in case you couldn’t tell. The goal, of course, is “what.” Motivation is the “why.” And conflict is the “why not.” Your character wants _______ because ______ but ________. It seems so easy. Yet when I tried to put the […]

  • Know your characters

    Reading an article in a recent issue of Romance Writers Report got me thinking about the characters in the story I’ve been editing: Do I know my heroine as well as I know myself? I sure should, since she’s me … or at least more me than most. Sure, I put a little bit of […]