Kay Keppler, author

Where caper meets courtship

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  • About me
  • Books
    • Betting on Hope
    • Christmas in Caterwaul Creek
    • Gargoyle
    • Loving Lucy
    • No Margin for Error
    • No Time to Spare
    • Zero Gravity Outcasts
  • Other writing
    • 10 Essential Elements of a Great Escapist Hero
    • 6 Elements of Successful Storytelling
    • After you begin—then what?
    • Avoid Construction Accidents
    • Backstory: Leave it in the past
    • Beating Your Scene into Action
    • Breaking through Writers Block
    • Build Characters with Action and Motivation
    • Build empathy with point of view
    • Building the Villainy
    • Conflict: Characters in Opposition
    • Deep POV: Plunging off the Cliff
    • Defining Your Hero
    • Don’t Go Overboard: Managing Proportion
    • Enrich Your Story with Foreshadowing
    • Finding Reality in an Unreal World
    • Get More from Your Settings
    • Give Your Characters Tough Goals
    • Hearing Your Voice
    • Hook readers with specific characterizations
    • How Do You Feel?
    • Know your character’s motivation—or else
    • Love Your Bad Guys
    • Perspective: Pointing the Way to Story
    • Planning your book
    • Plot: It’s What Happens after the Shower
    • Raising Your Story’s Stakes
    • Research: Looking for the Forest? Or the Trees?
    • Say That Again: Writing Dialogue
    • Scene Glue: Transitions and Sequels
    • Self-Editing at the Finish Line
    • Setting: Finding the Right Place
    • Start Your Book on Familiar Ground
    • Static Settings: Make Them Do More
    • The Devil’s in the Details
    • Time and Your Story
    • Top 10 Plot Problems of 2013
    • Use Setting and Background to Meet Reader Expectations
    • Weathering Wuthering Heights:
    • Where’s the Plot?
    • Writing a (character-driven) romantic comedy
    • Writing a Blockbuster: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict
    • Writing Dialogue
    • Your Job Description
    • Your Title, [or] Your Book in Five Words or Less
  • Writing as G.S. Mauro

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