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I got a 2011 calendar in the mail the other day. Free. Gratis. When I opened the envelope and found the calendar, I felt a small wave of relief. I won’t have to buy one this year. You see, my mother had a thing about not buying ...
This is one of the hardest lessons I ever had to learn about writing but it's alwo perhaps the single most important lesson. So what does it mean to trust your reader?For me, it meant not repeating the stuff that was important for the reader to know. I'd try to be subtle but ...
Synergy of writer's resources Do you blog? Do you follow blogs? Have you realized yet that you can spend your life reading blogs? I've been down that road myself. I've even had "must-read" blogs. But after a while, even the best start to feel like they have ...
Today's issue is theme. I suck at figuring out theme, but I just read A Story is a Promise by Bill Johnson, and Bill spends some time on theme (though the author refers to it as "premise," it's the same thing.) The author gives examples of premises to well-known stories. ...
I read a comment in a blog a while back that advised writers to read outside their genre and made the comment that romance readers were more like to read Harlan Corben than visa versa (or was it the other way around?) Either way, I was a little offended. I read both (love Harlan & I've read every ...
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