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How to Hook the Reader from the Start

February 25, 2017 by Jeff Haws Leave a Comment

During a recent Facebook discussion about my new book, “The Slingshot” (available now on Amazon), an awesome fellow writer named Aurora Gregory said, “I swear, opening sentences are your super power…seriously…what a start!” It’s nice to know I have a super power, though I’m not sure Opening Sentence Man (“Leaping comma splices in a single bound!”) is gonna get invited into The Avengers any time soon. [Read more…] about How to Hook the Reader from the Start

Filed Under: Blog, Personal, Process, Writing Tagged With: beginning, opening, readers, Writing

RWISA Blog Hop Tour

February 14, 2017 by Jeff Haws 26 Comments

Today begins an exciting virtual journey with an organization I’m a member of called RWISA, a division of RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB. There are going to be 19 blogs over the course of six days, which seems like a lot. Should be a chance to highlight some quality authors. [Read more…] about RWISA Blog Hop Tour

Filed Under: Blog, books Tagged With: author, book, guest, RRBC, RWISA

How to Juggle Lots of Characters

February 9, 2017 by Jeff Haws Leave a Comment

One of the biggest differences between my first novel, Killing the Immortals, and this novel draft I’m almost done with, possibly called Separation, (but who the hell knows right now?) is the number of characters. [Read more…] about How to Juggle Lots of Characters

Filed Under: Blog, Character development, Process, Writing Tagged With: characters, development, technique, Writing

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