Prompt journals for daily writing practice, morning pages, and/or flash fiction are now up on Amazon! Each journal has 220 lined pages—enough to write a piece of short fiction for every prompt. Soft and hardcover version are available. If you prefer writing digitally, or would like to use your own notebook/journal, you can download a free, prompts-only PDF right here.
The Character Voice Worksheet
In this TikTok video, I detailed a variety of ways to work on developing character voice. I’ve created a resource to pair with that video.
The Character Voice Worksheet is a simple .pdf with a handful of writing prompts to help you develop your character’s descriptive voice in narration and dialogue. I use something like it in my writing notebooks to do warm-up exercises whenever I’m struggling to pin down a new POV character (or whenever a side character’s lines start feeling bland). You can download it here:
The This vs. That Chart
One of the ways I plan romantic pairs is by building them, from the beginning, as part of a matched or opposed set. The best way I have to keep track of character-level details while planning is by using something I call a “This vs. That” chart.
I don’t use the chart for generic character stuff (like eye color, birthday, etc.), nor do I use it for the really heavy stuff like backstory wounds, false believes, or motivations. Rather, the chart is a good place to keep my middle-level ideas and explore what each character would act like in certain conditions. If I ever reach a point in the story were I’m not quite certain how a character will respond, I know I can always head to my chart and find the relevant condition to straighten out my thoughts.
You can find a blank .pdf of the chart (and a link to the excel version) right here: