Mackenzie CarpenterinOn ReflectionHealing Is Like Cleaning Your HouseA poem about emotional recovery·1 min read·Aug 14, 2023--6--6
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillHow to create conflict using your characters’ core values…and have it make sense for their arc and your plot.·4 min read·Sep 5, 2022--2--2
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillHow to make sure your characters stay in characterAnd what does ‘in character’ even mean, anyway?·5 min read·Jul 9, 2022--1--1
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!·3 min read·May 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…1 min read·May 10, 2022--1--1
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillWhat are core values, and how do you pick them for your characters?Cores aren’t only for apples.·3 min read·Mar 11, 2022--1--1
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & Quill‘Where do you find your ideas?’And what do you do once you have them?·7 min read·Jan 7, 2022--1--1
Mackenzie CarpenterinKeyboard & QuillWriting More Isn’t Going to Help You ImproveHere’s what you need to do to get better.·7 min read·Aug 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…·5 min read·Jan 19, 2021--3--3