I don’t read books by writers on writing. It’s too much like work. There are as always exceptions to every rule, of course, and Barbara Kingsolver’s chapters in High Tide in Tucson, on her first book tour and on being a backup singer for the Rock Bottom Remainders are brilliant, true, and hilarious. (I loved…
7 Tips for Writing Crime Fiction by Dana Stabenow (written for Writer’s Digest) 4. Make your protagonist a hero, if not in his own eyes then in everyone else’s. A hero is better than you and me; that’s why they are heroes and why they deserve their own novel and you and I don’t. How?…
7 Tips for Writing Crime Fiction by Dana Stabenow (written for Writer’s Digest) 6. Decide early on if you’re writing a series or a stand-alone.* Don’t introduce that great character only to kill him off at the end of the first book of a 22-book (and counting) series. Don’t ask me how I know. *Realize…
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