kris kennedy

Midpoint is one of the most important parts of a story arc. It’s a huge ‘push point,’ where all the threads of your story come together to ‘push’ the character and plot towards a rousing Act III. Do you know how to give your story that ‘push’? Do you know how to craft a midpoint that puts...

You’ve got a great story with awesome characters yet, somehow, it’s sagging. Your wonderful characters aren’t exploding off the page...at least not after the opening chapters. Your scenes aren’t taking off. The story feels flat. What’s going on? One of the most common challenges writers face...

Great stories have great structure. It’s vital for writers to deliver all the right hits, in all the right places, if they want to get on readers’ auto-buy lists. But most plotting methods aren’t specific for the romance genre.. Trying to adapt a single-protagonist, plot-centric structure will...

How ‘hook-y’ is the opening of your manuscript? You sure about that? In this highly competitive market, it's more important than ever to ensure your readers are immediately sucked into your story. They have a hundred other things they could be doing, including reading a different book. Why...

"Forget making your characters 'sympathetic.' Make them remarkable. How many times have we heard the advice: "Make your character 'sympathetic.'" Or scarier yet, 'relatable.' But maybe that’s not what you need... When you start focusing on making your heroes and heroines sympathetic...