I’ve started an internet bookclub!
We’ll be reading a book a month and sharing our thoughts.
Although you’re welcome to read the book then comment on this post, the book club was started as part of a Habitica party and guild. You don’t need to know what Habitica is, but if you’d like to participate in our main forum, suggest new books for coming months, and vote for next months books then you should check out our Achievement Unlocked forum:
Visit the main forum here.
Apply to join the forums here (obviously, everything is free)
Bookmark the Bookclub forum here.
I’d love to have more people read with me and talk about books – I hope you’ll join. Details on this months book are below.
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Link : Amazon, Goodreads. Price: £7.27
The Capetian Kings are dead and John II “The Good”, who is anything but good in any sense of the word, is on the throne. As his arrogance, incompetence and vanity drive France from one catastrophic failure to another, the English take the ascendancy in the hundred years war and it seems that the church is the only barrier between the Kingdom of France and English rule. How will France survive?
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Link :Amazon, Goodreads. Price:£9.89
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a psychological treatment to help people make sense of and manage their emotions. Published by two expert practitioners in the field, and endorsed by comprehensive list of psychologists and psychiatrists, this book aims to put some of the tools of CBT into your own hands.
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Cassie Beebe, author of fascinating, moral complex, compelling romance novels, kindly agreed to help me out with a guest post while I deal with Macron’s declaration that we can all work from home and educate our children at the same time because we are French!!! Happily, not only did Cassie step into the breach, she wrote an article chock full of new ideas for how to create characters that I intend to immediately steal – I suggest you do the same. Cassie’s latest novel, Moving On, is available on amazon by clicking this link.
Without further ado, here is Cassie herself. I’m off to 16personalities.com (you’ll know what I mean in a minute)
So you want to write rich, captivating characters, eh? Well, boy, have I got some tips for you!
Characters have always been an aspect of storytelling that has come naturally to me. They live in my mind, roaming free, living their lives and being themselves, and my job is simply to reflect that accurately on the page. But for my most recent novel, Moving On, things were different.
When I first began the writing process of this book, I had a surprisingly difficult time. The words weren’t flowing as naturally as they had in previous works, and I knew that the source of my mental block was the simple fact that I didn’t know these characters. They hadn’t become full, deep individuals in my head yet, and given that that usually happens naturally for me, I had no idea how to force them to develop. So I did something I had never done before: I made in-depth character sheets for each of my main characters and prominent side characters. I learned a lot through this process, and I’d love to share some of my discoveries with you. Hopefully these tips can help enrich your characters as well.
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Link :Amazon, Goodreads. Price: £4.99
This book is aimed at intuitive writers, or “pantsers”, who don’t know anything about story structure and find themselves getting lost part way through a project. By learning a little about structure, the author says they can help you become more productive and prolific than ever before by finding a middle way between “meticulous story plotting and full on organic writing.”
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