What’s a Mini-PlotPantser?
It’s no secret. I’m a pantser. And I’ll never be a plotter, someone who outlines before starting to write. But[…]
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Category: Writing
Writers: Eight Ways to Combat FOMO
Are you avoiding “missing out” or just overcomplicating life? Until recently, I had always defined FOMO, or Fear of Missing[…]
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Great Expectations and Bad Breakups
Great Expectations and Bad Breakups: How writers craft endings that justify the means and means that justify the ends. See also: Miss Scarlet, in the Conservatory, with a Knife.
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Is it Contagious? COVID and Crime Fiction
The COVID conundrum in crime fiction
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Writing with Intentionality
I’m about to start the final edit of my very messy manuscript of Blood of the Innocents, the fifth NYPD Detective[…]
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On Writing: Casting Spells and Making Magic
Are you a good witch or a bad witch? When Dorothy crash lands in Oz, she answers Glinda’s baffling question[…]
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Four Ways I Use Food in My Mysteries
Two of our three weeks in Sicily have been spent with two other couples in a lovely villa, a short[…]
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Lori Robbins: Armchair Detective and Serial Late-Bloomer
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot I’m delighted to join the accomplished,[…]
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Writing While on Vacation
Hello from Sicily. I’m in Palermo trying to work on the last round of edits before I submit the fifth[…]
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Sensational Writing
Sensational can mean many things. It can mean fabulous, trashy, astounding. But that’s not what I’m writing about today. Today,[…]
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