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First you have an idea, then you think it through, conjure up characters or sometimes try to stop them yammering at you, then you imagine a setting and stir all together into a really sticky problem.
Several months later or sometimes a year later, out comes a typed manuscript. If you’ve […] Writing friend Keith Dixon asked me in one of those round robins on Facebook to share five writing tips, but without copying his (curses!). After nine, soon to be ten, books you’d think it would be easy, but the problem is that over that time, I’ve gathered a jumble of writing dos and don’ts. It […] Conflict and emotion are two pillars of fiction writing whether in high-end literary fiction or the most melodramatic genre fiction. A story will often start by providing the main character with a conflict, be it professional or personal. Sometimes it’s the place where the initial event is set (weather, nighttime, urban, with unlit streets), a […] You’d think that once in print, on paper or digitally, a piece of written work was finished. Well, no. Revised editions, additional content and reworking show that change is continuous. In fact, change is all around us; time, seasons, weather, people moving in, moving out, governments, friends, cars, shops, children, relationships. One of the […] |
   
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