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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Are you a good witch or a bad witch? When Dorothy crash lands in Oz, she answers Glinda’s baffling question[…]
Read moreThe banner shows a modern autopsy table. If your crime book contains an autopsy scene, you want to get it[…]
Read moreSensational can mean many things. It can mean fabulous, trashy, astounding. But that’s not what I’m writing about today. Today,[…]
Read moreI was having a discussion with my critique partners the other day, and one of them, Matt Witten, mentioned how[…]
Read moreNothing makes your characters pop off the page like well chosen phrases in their dialog. Have her use specific, well[…]
Read moreAnd how to pickle them I’ve always had a rather foggy idea of what a red herring was, but I[…]
Read moreThe first time I saw Brian Thiem, he was reading from his novel, Red Line, and I was awed. Not[…]
Read moreAs you know, I love Vanity Fair. At the back of the magazine is a “Proust Questionnaire” where they ask[…]
Read more…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]
Read moreLast night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
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