Fear Not Your Shadow
I have a new motto: Read endlessly… Write fearlessly… Edit ferociously. But don’t let that word ferociously scare you. Instead, charge fearlessly ahead as you […]
Tag: fiction writing
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 Rose by Any Other Name
According to Shakespeare’s heroine in Romeo and Juliet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” And I think most of us would agree, […]
Art or Elephant Ears?
Have you ever written a chapter, scene, or page of dialogue or description that you thought was truly excellent, then reviewed it the next day […]
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 […]
Like Driving on I-95
“What’s it like to write fiction?” one of my East Coast friends once asked me. “It’s kind of like driving on I-95,” I told him. […]