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Writing Prompt: True Nature

Posted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Mar 11, 2018 | Writing Prompts

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 | Writing Prompts

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 | Craft, 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?