How We Write Wednesdays: Jenni's Upping the Stakes

By popular request, we're capping off my discussion last week about narrative structure and arching character through a novel, with Jenni's workshop on upping the external and internal stakes of a novel. Check her out. She's fabulouse when she teaches this.

Remember, it's all about character. And story. It's about both. Because they're the same thing in the end. When I focus too much on one, I know to take the other deeper. When one hits the wall of writer's block, the other is somewhere screaming for attention that I haven't given it.

That's how we write?

What's your process for discovering where your reader will go when he dives into your novel? Do you know? More importantly, have you put much thought into how you're going to take your way and make it better, with each character and each plot and each book…

Next week, come back here for the exciting roll out of our HoWW "guest blog" schedule. You're gonna love the authors who've signed up to come out and play over the summer–Phase 3 in our plan to get writers talking about about their craft and their journeys, so we can support each other without the hype and the promotion and the competition you find all over social media.

Phase 2, you ask? Check out our #weWRITE Twitter tag, where we continue the conversation every day!