Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan

A Checklist: How to Revise Your Novel

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Mar 12, 2018 | Craft

It takes longer, much longer than you might think, to make your book wonderful. It takes revisions. How do you go through the whole darn thing and make it better?

Writing Prompt: True Nature

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Mar 11, 2018 | Craft

Would your characters see these shadows on Hank’s garage as a portent? Or as proof the sun is shining?

Creating Emotional Suspense

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Feb 23, 2018 | Craft

In the Q and A, one young woman raised her hand, and asked: “How do you keep up the suspense and emotion in your novels?”
Well, great question. And it got me thinking.

Writing Prompt: In Other Than Words

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Feb 18, 2018 | Craft

How might your character communicate with someone else – without saying one word?

Checklist for Writing Your Thriller

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Feb 9, 2018 | Thriller

What’s the key to a good thriller? It’s not a formula, but there are basic conventions that thriller writers understand. And then your imagination can take off from there.

Writers Hereby Resolve…

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Feb 3, 2018 | Life

As career authors, we figure any time is the time to make a new start—our manuscripts start and stop on individual schedules, so why not our writerly resolutions?