writing fiction
November 3, 2009
- Whisper the words books on writing to a bunch of writers and you might have to watch the whoosh of air as they take sides so fast it's like being transported to West Side Story. Jets: "Books, I don't need no stinking how-to-learn-to-write books. Long as I have John Gardner, I'm fine." Sharks: "I can't hear you over this stack of books on writing ...
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October 17, 2009
- Reposted from Fictional Life A few weeks ago, I was trolling blogs on the subject of writing and I ran across a discussion about Chick Lit. Sorry, I don't remember the site. The post was from several years ago and it discussed the evolution in Chick Lit, which was morphing from Twenty-Something Sex-In-The-City storyline to stories about married women with children, i. e., Mommy Lit. Some comments ...
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September 14, 2009
September 11, 2009
- Cross posted from Fictional Life I have always been happy about the fact that I have a good imagination. It has kept me from being bored, entertaining me with a never-ending string of Stories (whether I wrote them down or not) and has served as my constant companion. My imagination is kind of like Peter Pan's Shadow, it is both a part of me and yet something almost-Other that operates ...
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August 31, 2009
- A journalist friend of mine, making the leap into fiction, got some conflicting advice about "voice" in a novel. She asked me what the formula was. If only there was one! In my experience, finding a novel's narrative voice is a mysterious process of intuition, alchemy, trial and error. Every book is different, and each one demands its own storytelling voice. My first book, ...
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July 22, 2009
- In the past twenty plus years of writing fiction, I've had plenty of time to ponder why I write about particular topics and revisit particular themes. I grew up a fearful person, something I'll post about at greater length one of these days. I think I've conquered most of my fears (with the exception of wide open spaces--shudder), but I find that I continually write about characters who struggle ...
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July 15, 2009
- About fiction editing with an opinionated advisory.Fiction writing is difficult enough. Now, with all of the good and not so good people in the marketplace doing everything possible to entice new writers to spend money on their products and or services, writing has become more challenging.Magazines, ezines, bloggers, newsletters, and the so-called experts all want what writers have too little of, ...
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May 10, 2009
- Book writers are funny creatures. Don't we all wish we knew the secret to writing--the one thing we'd follow to make us successful every time at bat? We all MEAN to write great, engrossing, passionate books, and we certainly EXPECT to finish them--just like we truly plan to follow through with our new year's resolutions. Writers often don't finish projects (or resolutions) well, though. Why? I ...
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March 27, 2009
- I confess. I'm a Virgin Blogger.No. Not that kind.But because this is my first blog ever.I'm excited. Maybe a little nervous. I welcome feedback. Especially feedback that begins with "Dearest Author, I love everything you write."In my blog I'm going to discuss things that I find amazing in the world.I hope it'll be a real discussion, that you'll write back with ...
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December 29, 2008
- Mr Tench went out to look for his ether cylinder, into the blazing Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few vultures looked down from the roof with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet. A faint feeling of rebellion stirred in Mr Tench's heart, and he wrenched up a piece of the road with splintering finger-nails and tossed it feebly towards them. One rose and flapped across the town: over ...
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