by Zoe M. McCarthy | Sep 22, 2016 | Writing
We want our scenes to be dramatic. We want our readers to live through events with our characters and experience our characters’ emotions. However, if we slide into melodrama, we rob our readers of emotional involvement. Definition: Melodrama is: “a dramatic form that...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Jun 20, 2013 | Creating
“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creative types love to put our unique stamp on whatever we do. But all personality types have an upside to embrace and a downside to control. So how do we know when an injection of...