Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as…
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Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as…
All that we see or seem is but a dream.–Edgar Allen Poe I’ve been thinking about time, realism, and surrealism. When an author writes in…
Verbs are an author’s friend. They bring our characters to life. Verbs put them in motion, imbue them with traits, and describe their adventures. In…
In a prior life, one of my jobs was to draft academic policy. This was always fraught with peril, not over the policy but over…
When I retired, I decided to try my hand at writing fiction. I remember thinking, “How hard can this be?” I’d already written a couple…
Snark. I love it when it’s aimed at someone else. Not so much when it’s aimed at me. Just what is snark, anyway? I mean,…
I confess. I love mysteries and I love science fiction. So, it’s natural that I’d love novels that blend the two. In particular, I’ve enjoyed…
I’ve spent some time this week working on doodles for a cover to my current work-in-progress. This novel started out as a locked-room mystery set…
When I first arrived from Iowa to my new home state, Oklahoma, I wondered if we even spoke the same language. At the filling station,…
What is a scene? In The Art of Fiction, John Gardner writes that a scene is …an unbroken flow of action from one incident in time…