ON REWRITING THE SAME STORY AGAIN…. Successful fiction has a determined structure, like building a house. Base. Set up (Pinch point 1). Character goal/quest/stakes set. Studs and rafters. (Pinch point 2) Building is forming but you cannot move in and live there yet. It is only the intriguing hint of a house/ story. Exterior walls … Continue reading Story Dwellings Revised
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Book Review: Trust
My rating: 5 of 5 starsA tricky ride through fiction of the lies we tell and allow ourselves to believe about the way the world of money revolves around us.Four books in one. The first one reads like a F. Scott Fitzgerald story of money, wealth and fame. Tragedy. When you finish it is hard … Continue reading Book Review: Trust
Query this
The big bugaboo. I thought The Pitch was hard, but the query letter goes on forever and refuses to be satisfactory enough to send it out. This enticing letter conveys your manuscript of 50,000 to 100,000 words, relays your life experience, and shows your knowledge of the genre in less than 300 words and four … Continue reading Query this
Book Review – Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Brights Creatures by Shelby Van PeltMy rating: 5 of 5 starsLovely story from point of view of several characters, with a Giant Pacific Octopus, Marcellus, as the most compelling. He is counting down to the days to the end of his life expectancy timeline and observing the humans who come to his prison in … Continue reading Book Review – Remarkably Bright Creatures
Pitch a novel in 280 characters or less
I am spending time researching how to pitch a book for an upcoming Pitch event. If you haven’t seen these before it is on Twitter or Facebook or any social media app where publishers or agents read as many pitches for books that are posted over a specified amount of time (one pitch per author) … Continue reading Pitch a novel in 280 characters or less
Writing satisfaction
BLOG I always feel like writing. I always write. Every day. I do not submit often because I am always rewriting what I write and never feel it is ready to be read by others much less judged by agents, editors, or sometimes even beta readers. I can scarcely post a Tweet or a Facebook … Continue reading Writing satisfaction
Seven things on time
Spending most of the morning playing with a WordPress website so I have an author site takes away from my editing.Clearing out old photos to find one for website takes more time.How did my Kindle titles become pictures in my photo collection? Click and Delete takes time.Organizing photos in albums takes time. Should have done … Continue reading Seven things on time
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