(Keep on Writing! An order that needs to be heeded by aspiring writers) How do you go about writing a story that’s several hundred pages long? “Seriously, how do you do it? “some people ask me in astonishment, as if writing were some kind of magic and all those pages of text just erupted from […]
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Writing Tips from J.A. Jance
If you want to be a writer, read! Why people who don’t read books still want to write them is more than I can understand. If you want to be a writer, write what you love and respect your readers. If you look down your nose at genre fiction and are only writing a mystery […]
Researching Gangsters to Gadgets
Researching Gangsters to Gadgets To paraphrase the memorable line from the movie Goodfellas: As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to write about gangsters. The idea started when I was five years old. My grandmother, Mary, had been born in the early 1900s and told me how she grew up in […]