Sometimes you just have to admit defeat. No matter how hard you try, there’s simply no time to write. This[…]
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Wisdom
Always Mary Oliver. Usually Anne Lamott and William Kent Kruger. Lou Berney. These are the writers I turn to when[…]
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4 Things Book Clubs would like writers to know
Writers spend a lot of time talking to other writers. We have to. They’re the only people who understand the[…]
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What All Writers Can Learn From Mysteries
No one gets murdered in my new novel. It’s a mainstream story, with plenty of action and fun. Just no[…]
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Mystery Writers: Why NaNoWriMo works
Words on the page. Most writers agree that this is the key ingredient to shift from wanting to be a writer to being a writer. It is certainly key to seeing your book in print. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) was created with this in mind: words on the page. Fifty thousand words, ideally.
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He did what?
When you’re a mystery writer, you’re always trying to figure out why people do what they do. Sometimes you can[…]
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Combining Inspiration
I asked the Miss Demeanors: where did your inspiration come from?
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Titles, the Torture Of
suffered so much over my first title. #amstillsuffering
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Memorial Day Reading List
I was going to draw up a list of great books to read for Memorial Day, and then I happened to wander over to the American Writers Museum and saw that they had already compiled a wonderful list. So I thought perhaps I might just borrow/steal/be inspired by it.
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3 Stories & a Moral
Some years back the Mystery Writers of America had an open call for stories about odd partners. I came up[…]
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