I once called a writer friend and got the following voicemail greeting: “Pardons begged, we are presently truant and prevented from undertaking dialog with callers at present. After the modulation, please recite your sobriquet and cellular digit-string to better enable us an opportunity to reciprocate the honor of this summons.” The title of this article…
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Writing Fresh
I recently heard about a rising singer/songwriter who has found some success on social media who decided to interview herself on her own blog. How does that even work? ME: So, what’s your main inspiration for writing? MYSELF: Why are you asking me? You probably know better than I do. I: Or at least as…
My Love Affair with the Written Word
Writers love to read. Writers love other writers. Writers love the written word. There is nothing that makes my heart and my mind tingle more than a clever, profound, or artfully worded turn of phrase in something I’m reading. “A fanatic can no more shut his mouth than he can open his mind.” – Will…
Cast Your Book
Writing can often become labor-intensive. We become so focused on rewrites and editing and tightening up the grammar and narrative and plotting and on and on and on… Sometimes it’s fun, for a break, to remind yourself why you’re writing this thing – at it’s most basic, because it’s fun to tell stories. One of…
Thrillers: Part 4 of 4: Plotting And Pacing
The key to any fiction is tension. Romantic tension, professional tension, survival, etc. In a thriller, the tension is primarily adversarial in nature. Here, whether our protagonist is striving for some sort of reconciliation, kumbaya moment with the antagonist or is willing to stop them at all cost, the thriller is driven forward by the…