Twitter: Cesspool, Network, or Laughfest?
I’ve learned more about agents and authors on Twitter than I have in the past six years of attending conferences and doing Facebook.
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Month: August 2021
It’s Frankenstein Day!
August 30th is National Frankenstein Day! Frankenstein, written in 1818 by an eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin Shelley, remains an amazingly relevant story to this day.
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The research side of writing.
Research. We’ve all done interviews, read material, and done lots of things to get details right. What’s the most unusual (or unexpectedly helpful) place you’ve turned to for info?
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Quirky Characters
What is it about Kinsey Millhone? I didn’t realize how much I miss Kinsey Millhone until I saw the ad[…]
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Rediscovering Ruth Rendell
This is how Ruth Rendell’s novel, Shake Hands Forever, begins: “The woman standing under the departures board at Victoria Station[…]
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Lessons From the Cafeteria of Life
Long ago in a world that has passed away, I grew up in a small town in northern Illinois. In our town was a cafeteria, Bishop’s Buffet. That where I first understood the phrase “your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” I’m experiencing something similar today in my writing.
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What’s Your Favorite Fair Food?
Keenan: It’s Friday Question again. So I put it to the Miss Demeanor’s: what’s your favorite fair food? Mine is[…]
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Invent Your Own Rules
A few weeks ago I posted about novelizations and looking forward to Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Well, I got my paws on it and ladies and gentlemen, it’s a BLAST.
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Tips for writing in a cafe
Seeking refuge in a writing place not your own? JK Rowling did it, Brad Parks does. The trick is to know what you need from your home away from home. In other words, make it work.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Today is the birthday of the great film director, Alfred Hitchcock, famous for his movies as well as his interesting[…]
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