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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Tag: inspiration
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Flash Fiction for Novelists
I’ve been intrigued by flash fiction since reading an interview with Shelby van Pelt, author of the lovely novel Remarkably[…]
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Standing Up to My Inner Critic
Among the high points of 2012, my first year as a published novelist, was the Debut Authors breakfast held in[…]
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Hemingway’s Tips for Writers
Happy 2025! As many of us start new writing projects, I came across these seven tips for writers from Ernest[…]
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Six Suggestions For Creative Prompts The two most frequent questions I receive as an author are, “What is your writing[…]
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Merry Everything – that’s all.
We were recently in Southeast Asia. One of the highlights for me was the street art in George Town, Malaysia.[…]
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Crafting True Crime: Trial by Ambush
For our readers, a Christmas present from the incomparable John Valeri, host of Central Booking podcast, a writer, readers and[…]
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Author Lynda Allen stops by to answer our Proust Questionaire – and also to let you know what a Jersey Cozy is.
Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. Today we’re asking Lynda Allen, author[…]
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On Writing Historicals: Celeste Connolly and her Lady Petra series
I decided this year to challenge myself as a writer, and am attempting a stand alone historical between my Nora[…]
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A Coroner’s Guide to Writing Autopsy Scenes: Dr. Christina VandePol
The banner shows a modern autopsy table. If your crime book contains an autopsy scene, you want to get it[…]
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