By Kym-n-Mark Todd As writers, we all spend lots of time thinking about narrative craft – plot, character, setting, dialog – but what about the blank spaces between all those words? Readers don’t give much thought to those spaces – unless they’re missing. So it’s up to writers to fill the blanks with implied…
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Wrapping it Up—Finishing Up a Series
by Katriena Knights No matter how much you love a series, sooner or later it has to end. Well, this is true for television—in series fiction, you could probably keep going until you expire in front of your keyboard. However, there are plenty of reasons you might want to wrap up a book series, and…
Talk to the Paw: Halloween Choices!
by Karen Duvall Halloween is creeping up on me. I haven’t done a very good job preparing for it this year, mostly because I’m staring down the barrel of a deadline. What do you know, I have to have this book turned in by October 31. What a coincidence that it’s the same day as…
The Blank Spaces in our Stories: The Messages Writers Send Readers Between The Words
By Kym-n-Mark Todd As writers, we all spend lots of time thinking about narrative craft – plot, character, setting, dialog – but what about the blank spaces between all those words? Readers don’t give much thought to those spaces – unless they’re missing. So it’s up to writers to fill the blanks with implied…
Writing is an Act of Love
By Nicole Disney When I first decided it would be fun to try blogging, I had this vision of myself creating ten, twenty, even thirty posts. They were going to be stacked tight and aligned like a fresh ream of paper, somehow undisturbed by any of my three wall-vaulting cats. The contents of these pristine…