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I'm new to Savvy and looking forward to connecting with other authors. I write realistic military and contemporary romance set in the south.

Greeting from Melbourne, Australia

I have a minor character in my manuscript, but I can't figure out an ARC for him. I just need a little one. I looked at the story without him and it doesn't work. He's the glue for the group, but feedback I have gotten is he is the least developed of the characters.

I tried character worksheets and nothing. He's almost a tool for all the other characters, and the plot. The only possible arc I can think of is that although he is the leader of the group, he isn't really A LEADER. And after his choices cause a few mishaps, and the death of one of the group, he figures out he really shouldn't be the leader. But he also is that person who can get others to follow the new leader. Is that a good enough arc for a minor character?

Are there lectures? Is there homework?

My work in progress is now published. How do I remove it from the WIP page?

- Anna Taylor Sweringen

Hello everyone,
My name is Dave Wickenden. I am a retired fire fighter from Ontario, Canada. I retired specifically to write. I had gotten totally sick of writing business plans and reports for politicians who had their own agenda. My work was dry and lifeless and I felt totally stagnated. Thus my escape to creative writing.

I have tried a few times during the years to write a novel, but life always got in the way. I finished my first novel seven months after retiring, but found that I didn't know what I didn't know. The last year and half I have been learning the trade of writing with the help of a great group on Scribophile.

The first draft of my new novel, Homegrown is almost complete and having gone through critiques for Chapter one, I already have a map drafted out for the re-write.

Hope to make friends here and learn and help others.
Talk to you soon,
Dave

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Hi there! I'm Lana. I write... I guess it'd be called mainstream fiction or "love stories". Several people who have read my books claim they like my stories, but they hate romance novels. So I've spent the past few years trying to figure out what to call my books. "Women's fiction with romantic elements" seems too high brow for what I write. (No offense meant toward women's fiction writers. I love reading it, I just don't think I'm delving that deeply into my characters' psyche to warrant such a title.)

I'm pretty sure that if I market my books as romances, readers will be disappointed because I don't really nail that genre either. So, my goal for the rest of this year is to figure out how to plant myself SOLIDLY in the romance genre. And I feel in order to do that, I need to start networking with other romance writers and readers.

However, I'm an introvert. I struggle to connect to people, so it's really hard for me to jump into a group setting and say, "Hey, I need a friend or mentor that can guide/shove me in the right direction."

My first novel was published by a small e-publishing company in 2009. We parted ways amicably right before I finished revising my second novel. Since our parting, I've been focused on indie publishing. I've released a total of seven novels. My eighth novel is in the editing/revising process and I hope to release it by the end of the year.

I look forward to getting to know all of you. Hopefully, I'll get over my fear of people laughing at me and start networking.

Onward!

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