Mackenzie CarpenterinOn ReflectionHealing Is Like Cleaning Your HouseA poem about emotional recoveryAug 14, 20236Aug 14, 20236
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillHow to create conflict using your characters’ core values…and have it make sense for their arc and your plot.Sep 5, 20222Sep 5, 20222
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillHow to make sure your characters stay in characterAnd what does ‘in character’ even mean, anyway?Jul 9, 20221Jul 9, 20221
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillI challenge you to write the worst thing you possibly canGo put some awful prose on the page and report back; I want to know how you did!May 21, 2022May 21, 2022
Mackenzie CarpenterChris Baty mentions this phenomenon in his book about NaNoWriMo, "No Plot?It's so much easier to look forward to writing when you treat it like dessert instead of trying to force yourself to have it for every meal…May 10, 20221May 10, 20221
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillWhat are core values, and how do you pick them for your characters?Cores aren’t only for apples.Mar 11, 20221Mar 11, 20221
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & Quill‘Where do you find your ideas?’And what do you do once you have them?Jan 7, 20221Jan 7, 20221
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillWriting More Isn’t Going to Help You ImproveHere’s what you need to do to get better.Aug 15, 2021Aug 15, 2021
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillClauses, conjunctives, and conditions: a fiction author’s guide to commasMost writers I know have a love-hate relationship with commas, omitting them where they should be added and adding them where they should…Jan 19, 20213Jan 19, 20213
