by mike | Sep 28, 2020 | Books, Editing, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
Yes, I mean that literally…but not in a nasty way. Quite the opposite. I’ve written over two dozen novels and countless stories, articles, blog posts, etc., and there has been one consistency over the decades that I’ve been engaged in this: I do my best preliminary...
by mike | Nov 1, 2018 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Read & Critique, Research, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
Here is a point that I always made clear to my writers. I first presented this post in 2015. Back in my salad days, when I took on just about any writer who had a pulse, I worked with a woman from the Midwest—let’s call her Helen—who had written, according to her,...
by mike | Jan 25, 2018 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
With regard to self-publishing, things haven’t changed much since I first presented this post in 2014. Quite a few years ago, when self-publishing, e-publishing, POD and such were in their embryonic stages, literary super-agent Richard Curtis (who at one time...
by mike | Nov 6, 2017 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Sword & Sorcery, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
It’s novel-writing month or some such thing again, so I’m going to post my annual rebuttal on the matter, as I will likely do for a long time to come. Okay, this week I’m going to be a curmudgeon—something that I do quite well, actually. There are...
by mike | Feb 27, 2017 | Books, Editing, Life, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
What does former National Basketball Association great Bill Russell have to do with leading classes and workshops about writing novels? I’ll tell you…shortly. But, first things first. MY STUDENTS NEVER KNEW I began facilitating novel-writing workshops in the early...
by mike | Feb 9, 2017 | Books, Editing, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writing |
This is the first of three posts from 2013 on how writers can engage—or “hook”—their readers from the first page of their novels. A novel is made up of quite a few elements, among them characterization, dialogue, point of view, setting, and so on. But in my mind, the...
