Hello, friends!

News:

Parents Vs Ninjas Part 9: Lights Out is out on Wattpad! Read it here: https://www.wattpad.com/1343026114-parents-vs-ninjas-lights-out 

So, this week has been pretty good! I’m currently working on a revision of FrostFire, the story of Thomas, who learns that not only are superpowers a well-kept government secret, but he’s accidentally put himself directly in a supervillain’s crosshairs. Oops! 

I finally got a character arc that I like for him and finished a lot of the other arcs for the story. Now I just need to figure out how to write a mystery subplot so that Thomas can help find the traitor hiding within the United States Superhuman Organization’s (USSO’s) ranks, preferably before everyone dies. Wish me luck!

Writing Tips: 

It’s important for your characters to have clear goals that you tell your readers. This will give your readers some idea of where the story is headed, where it will end, and what to root for. If your readers don’t know what your characters are trying to do, how can they feel concern when the goals seems out of reach or happy when it’s achieved? Similarly, if they don’t know what the goal is, how will they know when the story has ended? This happened to me with Parents Vs Ninjas. I’d always thought of it as the story of a mom figuring out how to protect her son from ninjas, so in my head the story wasn’t over until her son was safe. However, I’d never clearly articulated this goal to my writing group! The goal I’d told my writing group was that she needed to rescue him from the ninja fortress, so they started getting really confused when she rescued her son and then the story just kept going. Once I went back and clarified the full nature of the goal earlier on the story worked. It’s all about setting the right expectations. 

And yay for writing groups! They help writers like me to improve my rough drafts so that by the time they get to you, fair reader, my stories are actually coherent!

(and there was much rejoicing)

Thanks for joining me on this crazy writing journey. Until next time!

Timothy Kuhn