Surrounded by beauty – Can an object ask you to commit a crime? PART TWO OF TWO
WHAT COMES OVER SOME PEOPLE?In part one, we asked if art crime was different from other illegal activity. When there’s[…]
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Month: May 2023
Building Stronger Characters
Elena Hartwell’s The Construction of Character helps writers strengthen the craft tools in their toolbox and build stronger characters, regardless of genre.
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Character Revolt?
I’ve said it often so you probably know I’m a pantser. My process is messy but I’ve written ten books[…]
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MICHELE ON THE LAM
How I came to be living on the lam is a long story, starting with living in Massachusetts, where the[…]
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Ghost Rules
Some years ago, an editor rejected a story of mine because it contained a ghost. He had a policy of[…]
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Why Can’t We All Just Play Nice?
So this one’s a bit of a rant. If you’re an author, you may have been following the recent story[…]
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The Coronation: Three Things You Didn’t Know
Yes, I’m an Anglophile, so of course I got up early to watch the coronation of King Charles III. For most people, it was a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. And spectacle it was with all the pomp and circumstance one could wish for. But what did it all mean?
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Words! Words! Words!
So sings julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, complaining about too many words said to her that[…]
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Using Description to Advance Plot and Deepen Character
I’ve often heard from beta readers that they need a physical description of a character to picture him or her.
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WHAT WE DIDN’T SEE AT THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III
The Coronation… My next blog was supposed to be Part 2 of “Can an Object Make You Commit a Crime?”[…]
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