Lantern Light Letters
Twice monthly prompts to illuminate the hidden corners of your WIP 🌟
Hi friends,
A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a fellow writer friend, both of us circling the same frustration: we felt stuck in our drafts. Not blocked exactly — just pressing harder and harder on scenes that refused to come alive. At one point she sighed and said, “I think I’m too close to them. I can’t see who they are anymore.” That landed.
We talked about how sometimes the most useful thing isn’t pushing forward in the manuscript, but stepping sideways. Letting the characters breathe outside the machinery of plot. By the end of the conversation, we both had the same realization: when you loosen your grip on the draft, your characters start telling you the truth.
I know we’re not the only ones who feel this way so I’m excited to introduce a new regular feature just for paid subscribers: Lantern Light Letters: Prompts for your WIP. I’ll be sending a prompt twice a month, designed to help you deepen your understanding of your fictional characters.
These aren’t generative prompts. I won’t be asking you to invent something brand new or spin up a random idea. Instead, these prompts are meant to draw you further into the story you’re already telling. They’re tied to your WIP. To your protagonist. To the people who have been living in your head and on your pages.
The goal is to help you get a clearer handle on who your characters are, what they want, what they fear, and what they might be hiding — even from you.
Because the more you understand your characters, the more alive they feel on the page.
