Do you know your fiction writing ABCs? Fiction Writing from A to Z Reminders about our craft make our imaginations burst into creative mode. From A to Z, we find sources of inspiration to keep us writing. I’ve chosen the first word that entered my mind for each letter as a means to keep […]
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Four Crime Genres, Four Techniques to get you that Contract!
Four Crime Genres, Four Techniques to get you that Contract! Psychological suspense, thrillers, horror, and mystery are popular subjects for a lot of genre writers. Yet all writers are already intimately familiar with these topics; so much of a writer’s life is an everyday encounter with most if not all of them. Supernatural self-belief, […]
If You Can’t Dream Up an Original Idea…Steal One
If You Can’t Dream Up an Original Idea…Steal One Like most published writers, I’ve moderated quite a few workshops in the art and craft of writing thrillers and mysteries. In virtually every one of these sessions, one of the attendees will invariably raise his or her hand and tell me that they’ve been trying […]