The raven-haired woman shivered inside her cloak and gazed at the house she had never expected to enter again. She set her jaw in resignation and pushed. The banshee squeal of the hinges sent chills all the way down to the toes of her hiking boots. She straightened the bundle strapped to her chest, “Come […]
Reading to Write
My Path to Becoming an Author
Month: March 2017
Between Kindle books and hard copies, I own more than 50 books on writing. Of those, a dozen or so are reference books for fiction writers, several are on writing nonfiction, probably an equal number on getting published, and about twenty on writing fiction. The sad thing is, when I pulled them all out to try and decide […]
I’ve almost finished the preliminary study of this book on writing methods. I say preliminary because I expect to refer back to it from time to time. I’ve found it very interesting and helpful. I plan to test out his statement that most great stories, both books and movies, have a “mirror moment” at the center […]