by Holland Rae | May 9, 2019 | Editing, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research
Do you ever get the sense that you’re skimming a character’s surface? Most books are written in third person, and it’s not unusual to find yourself wondering why you feel so disconnected from a hero or heroine’s emotions and thoughts. If it’s close third, which is one...
by Holland Rae | Apr 23, 2019 | Art, Beauty, Characters, Heroines, Historical, Inspiration, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, Series
It’s true. In the great spectrum of history and the universe, my Bachelor’s degree does not hold up to the onslaught of information, facts, figures, and theories that make up all of humanity, nature, and what we do not know. And that’s awesome. I have only recently...
by Holland Rae | Apr 8, 2019 | Art, Characters, Heroines, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Writing
I recently finished the novel Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, the story of Achilles’s and Patrocles’s eternal love that ultimately led to the end of the Trojan War. The story is brilliant, beautiful and incredibly told and when I was planning the next creative...
by Holland Rae | Apr 1, 2019 | Characters, Heroes, Heroines, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research
After free write, I begin the creative writing classes I teach with a question – what is stopping you from writing this week? As poets, novelists, journalist, short story tellers and everything in between, we run across a myriad of unique and ever-evolving challenges...
by Holland Rae | Mar 28, 2019 | Characters, Feminism, Industry, Reading, Romance Novels, RWA, Women's Rights
We’re still here. A year after the RITA awards were acknowledged as problematic and promoting of a biased system, we are once again, as a romance industry, fighting for inclusivity and equal opportunities for all authors. Small victories for authors from historically...
by Holland Rae | Dec 3, 2018 | Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading
National Novel Writing Month is over. It was a rough year, perhaps my roughest year, given that I’m now writing for work and for play and I just started a new teaching job, but I did manage to pull off the 50,000 words in thirty days and though the story isn’t quite...
