I’ve started a new novel. Well, more accurately, I’m picking up a novel I started a couple of years back. It’s set over 1000 years…
Author
I’ve started a new novel. Well, more accurately, I’m picking up a novel I started a couple of years back. It’s set over 1000 years…
I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.–Ray Bradbury Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like…
Writing the Synopsis, Teaser, and Blurb When I decided to start writing fiction, I thought it couldn’t be that hard. After all, I already knew…
In Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter tells us to “Brush up your Shakespeare.” That’s good advice. It’s also good advice to brush up your tense…
Love is blind. We all know what this means, but if you read it literally it’s nonsense. Love is an emotion, or maybe a state…
Ford Prefect, an alien passing for a human in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, wonders about earthlings’ peculiar “habit of continually stating and repeating…
We all want to write effective fiction. At its most basic, fiction is just words in a row on page. We organize the words into…
Here’s a question: how do successful authors write? Lawrence Bloch, the award-winning mystery author, wondered the same thing. He surveyed authors on the NY Times…
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. –Oscar Wilde Tension is the engine that propels your story. Tension is what keeps readers turning…
Some years are better than others for movies. In 1941, for example, both Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon were nominated for best picture. For many years, the former…