It’s a lot like dating, really. You meet another writer at a conference or at a book festival or writer’s…
Category: Craft
(This discussion assumes you’re writing in first or close-in third points of views. That is, you’re filtering the story though…
This week at The Debutante Ball we’re talking craft. Rather than focusing on one aspect, I thought I’d bring…
I may have mentioned this before, but my first love in writing was not fiction, but poetry. I was seduced…
Raise your hands if one of the first writing rules you learned was “write what you know.” I know many…
As a novice writer, especially one in search of an agent, we swallow every writing and industry rule hook, line,…
In no particular order: 1. Write every day. (Not every day is a writing day. Some days are recharge and…
Today we welcome historical novelist Hazel Gaynor to The Debutante Ball. Her debut, THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME, tells the story…
It probably comes as no surprise that I adore an atmospheric novel entrenched in its place (and often in time).…
Hope springs eternal. This is the most true phrase there ever was except maybe, “don’t shit where you eat” (for…