Tea Planter's Wife Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/tea-planters-wife/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:41:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Six Top tips on writing characters https://booksbywomen.org/six-top-tips-on-writing-characters/ https://booksbywomen.org/six-top-tips-on-writing-characters/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:07:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13969 I had to cut 49,000 words from the 100,000 word manuscript of my third book, The Silk Shop in Hanoi. Of my two point of view characters, one wasn’t working. I tinkered, I edited, I tore my hair, and yes, I swore, but the character was still wrong and had to go. It was heartbreaking […]

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