The Man Behind the Mask

ALLOWING YOUR CHARACTER TO ACT OUT OF CHARACTER As fiction writers, we are all aware that it is a serious no-no to allow your characters […]

Who’s There?

A year or two ago, a novel by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train, was all the rage. It seemed to me that it […]

A Little Goes a Long Way

Fiction writers pay great attention to making their characters seem like real people, and that includes the way they speak. It makes sense that a […]